This Lock and the twin 1862 were the first locks put out by the Bridesburg.  There are several reasons for the mismatched barrels in 1863-64-65.  Battle repairs, the Fenian Brotherhood purchase, or just someone replacing or building a period musket barrel.   I am working on a book about locks. Would you give me permission to use this photo if needed?  Also, how would you like to be credited?   The Fenian Brotherhood is credited with stamping "O" on their locks/plates.  

Those two pictures, no.5 and 6, with the Panther are in Houfalize, right? That one was restored a few years ago.  Heh, Grottes de Remouchamps. I remember the first time visiting those as a little kid, back in the 80s.  

I posted this in another thread, but it probably belongs here.   Pic of USCG guys on Iwo Jima, while most don't have helmet covers, slits can be clearly seen on the helmet of the guy in the N1 cleaning his '03.    The guy at the the forefront of the pic with the very stretched cover seems to have no slits in his. 

This is a somewhat rare design, made-in-the-Philippines buckle: “CLASSIC WIZARD” is the code name for a historically classified signals intelligence system operated by the United States Navy and the National Security Agency (NSA). It is directly tied to naval cryptology and the monitoring of maritime communications.     “POCG”, the acronym at the bottom stands for “Program Operation Command Group”.

Thanks to both of you. It’s probably difficult to find the exact origin.

. Hi Salvage,  I was amused with your comment only on a sunny day and never more than fifty miles from home  . . .   well it was an MGB I suppose.  !!!   Back in 1973 I made my first visit to Normandy, my Jeep, myself and my passenger, Normandy was probably a 200 mile drive from my parents house.  We drove around Normandy for a week, there was far less to see back then, the museums at Utah beach and the one in Ste Mere Eglise, and the Omaha beach cemetery.  we came across a small private museum in Carentan which was one French Franc, but a group ticket at 30 Francs allowed entry into  several museums in Belgium, we hadn't made any plans to visit Belgium on this trip.  However at the end of the first week we decided there was little more to visit in Normandy, opening a large map one morning to see where we had been and hadn't been,  I spotted the name Bastogne on the map, and in a heartbeat made the decision to head there    We gassed up and hit the road, my passenger map reading ( NO GPS in those days ), anyway we got to Bastogne after several more gas stops and then realised it was a 650 kilometre run each way.  Driving around the Ardennes we encountered two young guys dressed as wartime soldiers, so we pulled over and spoke to them, we learnt that the one dressed in German SS helmet was an item his grandfather had scooped up when he was released from a German prison camp in 1945.  The guy dressed in US pieces related that there was a huge surplus store in the village of Vielsalm so they guided us there, and it was a store that was unbelievable in the amount of items it had from war stocks, including GMC's Jeeps and halftracks.  Collecting and collections hadn't really begun then, and everything was surplus prices, even what would afterwards become rare and desirable.    I started by saying I was amused you restricted your driving to fifty miles, in 1973 I decided to drive 650 kilometres with no thought about doing so, well the Jeep was ONLY 30 years old at that time and I had full confidence in it's capabilities.  Would I do that again now as the Jeep is now 80 years old, it would probably take some thought and pre-planning now.  But I can clarify that in fifty years of Jeep owning I have NEVER trailered the Jeep anywhere, they have all been driven miles.                              Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 09 July  2O26.   ..    

Here is a partial answer to your question. I fell down the rabbit hole!   He enlisted during Sep/Oct 40 and was at Ft McClellan, AL with HQ Co 108th IR (27th ID at that time) by Nov 40:         He continued with HQ Co at Ft McClellan:   Then at Camp Robinson, AR:   Back to Ft McClellan:   He must have gone to Hawaii with the regiment during Apr 42; I don't know what happened to him when the 108th IR was transferred to the 40th ID on Hawaii during Sep 42, but he was back in the US by Jun 43, as part of the cadre for the 3rd Armored HQ Special Troops, 2nd Armored Corps at Camp Beale, CA. It appears he had been promoted rapidly:   By 13 Sep 43, he was again at Fort McClellan, this time as cadre for the Infantry Replacement Training Center there:   During late Dec 43, he was at the Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 1 at Fort Meade, MD., awaiting movement to the ETO:   He was in England as a replacement by late Jan 44:   On 13 Feb 44, he was assigned to HQ Co 115th IR 29th ID in England, but was on detached service with 3rd Bn 115th IR Infantry Training Cadre:   Dan   Disregard redundant document below which I can't seem to delete.

That's a nice one Robin.

i was glad to hear that there are teachers who teach this part of our history!  I can only speak from my own experience with what I was taught in school, and i get the impression most Americans have no idea that the US was not liberating Cuba/Guam/Puerto Rico and the PI,but building an empire of our own by preying on dying empire that was Spain. 

I don't know how much information you have found on him over the years, but here is this:   Shows that he enlisted on 4 Mar 42, which matches the BIRLS date further below.   VA BIRLS:   Dan