I love that medal bar, beautiful!!

In the closeup pic it looks like there is a faint 0 or 3 after the 8.  If you take pictures of the bails it will tell you if it is a 28 heat stamp or not.

Although an old thread. I just received two pairs of these today, purchased from someone who had no idea. I thought they were what was stated above, but I have no need for two pairs. If anyone have any idea of the going price of a pair, or would be interested in a pair, please let me know.  Each only has one strap though.  

In my 30 years service I met very few scumbags and degenerates. This discussion has taken a dark turn. Maybe time to turn this one off?

What a nice group, I especially like her out of order ribbon bars and purse.   Does anything have her name in it?   I wonder what her connection to the marines was?

. 06 June 2026   I don't have time to sort through all the images I took to edit and sort the best to post,  so basically this is as they were taken.   A French tradition of ringing church bells at 19.44 hours occurred at the Longest Yarn building on the evening of 06 June 2026.  Technically it is no-longer a church as it has been deconsecrated for religious services and handed over by the council as a home for the Longest Yarn.   Around a hundred soldiers from French, German and American forces attended the commemoration service when speeches were made and bouquets of flowers laid at the door.                              Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 08 June  2O26.   ..

Interesting story, please forgive me but I don’t understand how it pertains to my find? 

These two officer cap badges are currently listed on eBay by the same seller. My knowledge on left facing cap badges is fairly limited to what I've read on the forum. The first is the mid-size badge with dimensions listed a 2" tall by 2 1/4 " and the is unmarked. The second is a full size left facing BB&B marked badge. 

It might be worth more to a US-based collector who wants an original, unadulterated CF-issued M1.

One reason I’ve spent so much time researching Lt. Lloyd J. Andrews Jr. is that I think stories like his deserve to be remembered.   What strikes me about Andrews isn’t that he was a famous ace or a household name. He wasn’t.   What makes the story compelling is that he was one of thousands of young pilots who did dangerous work, flew dozens of missions, and never came home. Most people have never heard of him, despite the fact that he flew 73 combat missions, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, served with the 367th Fighter Group—the famed “Dynamite Gang”—and was killed in a documented fighter engagement over Germany on October 20, 1944.   Before researching this archive, I knew little about Andrews. What I discovered was a remarkable amount of surviving history: photographs, military records, a full MACR, German crash and burial reports, family correspondence, War Department communications, and references in the published history of the 367th Fighter Group.   Most WWII pilots who never returned are known today only by a name engraved on a memorial or listed on a casualty roster. Researching Andrews has reminded me that behind every one of those names was a real person with a family, friends, hopes for the future, and a story worth preserving.   And please don’t misconstrue my efforts to tell the story of a largely forgotten combat pilot as a sales pitch. Long before I knew anything about Lt. Andrews, he had already flown his missions, earned his decorations, and made the ultimate sacrifice. My interest is in understanding and preserving the history of a young man whose service deserves to be remembered.   Whether or not any new information about Andrews turns up, I’m glad that his service with the 367th Fighter Group—the “Dynamite Gang”—is being discussed again more than eighty years later.