S& S bough out thr remaining Bannerman stock in the 1960's or 70's, when Hogan sold out.  I have the 1938 catalog and the 1964 price list and nothing like this shows up.

Sorry please could you translate this text a few ? LCDR is Lieutenant Commander?  what does mean the rest? MCVS ??? 10/12/43  /03/  10/07/43 ???   Was him a Doctor in the Navy and during 1943(appears there)and those USNR men were in the Navy only during WW2 years ??? Thanks for your help Cheers Fernando 

W. Stokes Kirk did make "restamps" of many insignias.  Currently S & S Firearms has good repros of this plate for sale on their website..   

SOLD and Shipped - this cover is no longer available. 

1978 dated, theater made subdued 2nd infantry division 

Very interesting 4th armored photos. Patch worn on left side, name tape worn under us army. I don’t I’ve seen this combo before. Nothing being worn on the sleeves in the other photos. 

Looks like he was a doctor, USNR

In the summer of 2007, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning with USAAF serial number 41-7677 emerged from the sand of a beach in Wales where it crash landed in 1942, and it turned out to be largely intact and remarkably free of corrosion. It may a bit difficult to fully salvage the P-38 from the beach near Harlech, so any museum in the southern UK may have to weigh whether to recover the P-38 once the sands surrounding the aircraft are washed away by nature.

It’s good of you to look for a new home and a new life for these slides. Beats tossing them out. Well done! mikie

Congress recently released a draft FY2027 spending bill that bars the Air Force from retiring more than two U-2s despite the USAF's budget request to retire the U-2 fleet. Last year, the U-2 found an unlikely niche as a surveillance platform for stemming illegal immigration across the US-Mexico border.     The U-2 undoubtedly owes its longevity to low operating costs compared to the SR-71, but the US Air Force recognized that it is not suited to carry out reconnaissance in heavily defended airspace, and this was why the "RQ-180" program was initiated because the "RQ-180" reconnaissance UAV has the capability to penetrate heavily defended airspace.    Links: https://migflug.com/jetflights/u-2-dragon-lady-reprieve-fy2027-congress-blocks-retirement-2026/ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-u-2-spy-plane-is-patrolling-the-southern-border