Nope, Stateside in Seattle.  From what I found, mostly manned by older servicemen.  The CO, A.C. Cheyne was born in 1905.   Fort Lawton served as a major infantry post and the second-largest point of embarkation on the West Coast during WWII

Excellent and well presented topic as usual sir.   An addendum, lest we overlook the later evolution of USN WWI straw hats worn by the women's services   Ruth (Woodworth) Creveling, US Navy Yeoman (F), 1917-1920 US National Archives Women's Duty and Service in World War I   Photo #: NH 65510 Yeoman (F) First Class Amalie M. Townsley, USNRF In white summer dress uniform, circa 1919. She enlisted as a Landsman, Yeoman (F), U.S. Naval Reserve Force, on 8 October 1918 and served at the Naval Hospital, Naval Base, Algiers, Louisiana. Released from active duty on 31 July 1919, her honorable discharge as a Yeoman (F) First Class was issued on 3 January 1921. Courtesy of Mrs. Amalie M. Kahn, 1968. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.   Photo #: NH 94772 Chief Yeoman (F) Daisy May Pratt Erd, USNRF Photographed by Bachrach, 1918, wearing the Yeoman (F) Summer Uniform. Courtesy of Miss G.H. Erd, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.   Photo #: NH 53170 Yeoman (F) Eloise Fort (left) and Chief Yeoman (F) Lassie Kelly Pose for a "Tall and Short" photograph, while visiting New York City, May 1919. They were part of a contingent of 250 Yeomen (F) who were sent to New York from Washington, D.C., to take part in the Victory Loan drive. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.   Photo #: NH 53168 Yeomen (F) Surround a bemused sailor, while being entertained by the League of Catholic Women at the Cardinal Farley Club, New York City.  250 of these Navy women, who had done excellent work at Washington, D.C., went to New York to aid in putting over the Victory Loan drive, 8 May 1919. Note shoulder patch worn by the Yeoman (F) in the left center foreground: an anchor with the initials "Y" and "B". U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

That could be a ground Rohm dagger.    I don’t know if Anton made Rohm daggers.   Regardless a nice piece 

thanks, no overseas duty?

Ran out of likes, actually I sold them. 🤣   Like

I thought it odd that he was an old man by WWII standards....age 36 when he joined the Army in 1944....I forgot to mention, he was an ambulance driver. Note the photo of the ambulance with the name "Evelyn" painted on the side.   Mark sends

..and the dagger...a pre-RZM Anton Wingen piece....   Mark sends

Mike brought the dolch in wrapped in his Grandfather's WWII pillow sham. Unfortunately he kept that as he was using "for something else"....that is to say, as a cover for his turntable....

711th MP Battalion, Fort Lawton, Seattle 1943-1944   711th MP BN Dondero   First Lieutenant Arthur C. Cheyne was listed on a roster of personnel, dated Christmas 1943, of Company C, 711th Military Police Battalion, at Fort Lawton, near Seattle, Washington, as it's commanding officer. The attached photo is of brothers, Arthur and Benjamin Cheyne, about 1945, in Menlo Park, California.       I saw one notation in an obituary that some of the companies were disestablished and sent to the QM Corps as replacements after Normandy and then service in the Bulge.

This was a walk-in late today. Mike's grandfather, Private First Class Ellsworth A. B A R B O served with the 371st Medical Battalion, 71st Infantry Division in WWII. That unit drove through the Rhineland (and the areas where I was stationed from 1989 -1998) on their way to ultimately Linz, Austria. This dagger was accompanied by a "submachine gun" and a "sword that looked like it would have been carried by a King" according to Mike's memories of his childhood in the 1960s. He said it along with the other two items were kept behind the basement furnace and he would sneak a peak at them when he was down there. His Grandfather gave him the dagger circa 1967, and the other two items went to other family members.  The dagger is SA Gruppe Westmark marked (formerly the SA Gruppe Rhineland-Pfalz). The grip has a chip missing and one repaired from the tang nut being overtightened (you can see the plier tooth marks on the nut)...and a person or persons unknown played around with a grinder on the blade. Still, it's not too bad looking.  It also came with a two piece hanger that had been buckles onto a long strap that looks like it's too small to be a chihuahua collar.   Mark sends