I've seen jump wings polished like this. Is this unusual for an officer to polished the details off like this. Polished one is Meyer marked, other is unmarked.

A few weeks back I got a named uniform grouping belonging to Capt David W. Price who served with the 99th ID during WWII (wounded in Dec '44) and then 11th Airborne in the immediate post-war period during the occpuation of Japan. He went through jump school in August of 1945. His uniform came with the pictured jump wings on it. The seller I got it from stated in the description of the grouping that he thought the wings were repros. I just now got around to looking at them more closely, mainly the backs of them. I'm no expert on these and wanted to get an opinion from the experts.

Thanks for your reply, Yokota!  Greatly appreciated.  I sent you a PM.     OD  

Destroyed Japanese machine gun emplacement Iwo Jima 1945

Wow what a GREAT and complete explanation,very kind from you!!! Finally about the hat from him I own,was used for him for all the ranks he got during WW2 or later??? A pleasure 

Probably High School swim team letter for 1937.

Pvt. Harry Stockow, Canton, Ill., loads a captured German mortar (35 lb projectile). 29 October, 1944. Company D, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Photographer: Wescott.  (Signal Corps.)    

this one is wire netting

Marine and War Dog Iwo Jima 1945   From the Louis R. Lowery Collection (USMC Archives)  

Flea market find. Just need a leather handle. I have the pins.   I initially thought it was a BMG M1917 box when I bought it. To my eye, the paint appears to be USMC green. Latch is dated 1920!    I think these boxes are a bit rarer than M1917 boxes.