Bye, Felicia 👋

Probably. They look more like USN/USMC collar-size bars, actually. I think this is probably your guy. Field Artillery. https://archive.org/details/officialarmyregi19611unit/page/284/mode/2up

Ironic that Robert Conrad ended up a lot like Boyington, a raging alcoholic.  Boyington recovered, but Conrad never did, he killed a man drunk driving and died in relative obscurity.  He could and should have been Hollywood royalty but no one would hire him.  

Thank you! That's certainly very helpful.

Not that eBay is a great price guide but one sold on there recently  for $366.  I’ve had a couple and never gotten that much.  I was gonna say around $150. But I stand corrected.  

I am holding a -43- canvas 1911 mag holder marked BOYY or BOYD First and last letters too worn to tell for sure but I feel it is BOYY Patrick Murray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mess_dress_uniform#U.S._Army Here is a site that helped me when I found my first US Army mess dress uniform at an estate sale.  It is a little confusing at first but through time..it makes sense.  Maybe (smile)

> Has anybody here laid hands on a WWII Jeep land-leased to Soviets?    If so, any major differences between theirs and ours?

Hi robinb,   What is the date / source for that image? I've seen other images of that attachment, similarly marked "CARGO." Can't remember where. Just when your post showed up, I had been looking for an edition of "Infantry" that briefly discussed early packboard cargo attachment development. I've read it a number of times, but now it seems to have vanished from Internet Archive. (Vexing.)   This is from TM 11-242,  RADIO SET  SCR - 300 - A,  February 1945:                            "... there are several specialized types of carrying attachment available for use with the packboard in addition to the regular cargo attachments."      

The wool is an original Raider patch.