I'm glad I found this thread!! I picked this up to add to my Corpsman collection. Glad I know what it is now! It is a lovely 'depot-tan colour'. Well used, and has an additional number stencil on the sides 40427. Cheers!

Pictured below are the ribbons of a few distributors of American ribbon bars.  Also included below is a link to a post by mslurvey which provides a list of manufacturers of USA metal insignia along with post 1950's alpha numeric manufacturing codes.   Any help with the unknown ribbons below is greatly appreciated.       Fig. 1.  Front view.  Top to bottom.  Column 1.  Ribbon cloth sewn onto a base bar; Goodwear Fabric Company; Goodwear Fabric Company; Viking "Kwickset" ribbon; Wolf-Brown ribbon.  Column 2.  Wolf-Brown ribbon; Wolf-Brown ribbon;  N.S. Meyer "Feth Wate" ribbon; Unknown;  Unknown;  Unknown.   Fig. 2.  Back views of the ribbons shown in Fig. 1.   Fig. 3.  Front view.  Top to bottom.  Row 1.  Krew Inc., Attleboro, Mass. GI- A  K21.  Row 2.  Vanguard, New York, Carlsbad, California, 1V,V21-N. Row 3.  Simon Company, New York. Row 4.  Harry Sugarman Inc., San Antonio, Texas,  S-21. Row 5.  Unknown, code L-24.  Rows 6, 7.  N. S. Meyer Inc., M 22.   Fig. 4.  Back views of the ribbons in Fig. 3.        

USNTS Farragut, Idaho library book stamp from the Song and Service Book.  

Just picked this grouping up for the collection. Looking to hopefully find the book he wrote to add to it.    Zach 

Dragon 1/35 Huey. Really great details and photo etched pieces.

Worth anything? 1943 packed date solid condition tube only

Hi, does any of these ranger patches from WWII? How much they worth? Thank you for looking

Go for it! Good test helmet. 

Matt_X, Your M1 was cut down from an already finished M1905 bayonet. If it were made from an M1905 blank from UFH's inventory, the tip would look like the pictures below. UFH is the only company that made M1's from unfinished blanks (as far as we know).    AS far as the grips are concerned, The may be CAB, but it is hard to tell.  Oftentimes, the grips were replaced when the cutdown process took placed. They made be from another manufacturer which could account for the shrunken look. If this bayonet is for display on your M1 rifle, then it is a good representative example. Marv

This is one of those needle in the haystack oddities. His discharge certificate doesn't reflect an AM and there's no award card in NARA to substantiate a decoration. I had the same thing a few years ago when I was researching a pilot who didn't have an AM award card yet had an AM with 9 Oak Leak Clusters. His burial marker also had an AM & 9 OLCs so I knew it was a matter of finding the associated General Orders (GOs) . I also knew everything was legit as I bought the items directly from his daughter. I scoured his records, which weren't complete, and started researching the names of the fellow fliers and sure enough, his name was in the GOs for all 10 Air Medals.   SSgt Jacoby has roughly 33 morning reports at NARA and I started cross referencing a few names in hopes of finding a GO that had his name in it. One of the pilots he flew with had one AM. Another pilot had one AM. An enlisted aviator didn't have an AM award. Another issue to deal with is a lot of GOs are missing under Far East Air Forces and that makes it harder, if not impossible to determine if a flier did or did not receive an AM or higher decoration.    Regarding the ribbon bar, I'd have to have some documentation to leave it where it is. SSgt Jacoby reflects that he was an airplane armorer gunner so an Aerial Gunner wing would be appropriate as well as an enlisted aircrew badge.