True, but I think the evidence is stacked in the raider side. So congratulations you found a raider uniform in the wild!

This is pinned at the top. Read this, in the beginning everyone thought it was good until they started looking at it real hard. It's worth  the read.

Attached of my pics of current helmets I own.   My biggest issue is just the Westinghouse para liners and what shells they mate up to. M1's, M2's or M1C's.   All I see in the market is M1C's. And everything I've read is that they are late war and have not seen much action. I have no opinion, since I don't know much. Should I not discount looking at M1C's?

I believe this a WWII .38 S&W Victory Revolver; Is it US made or is this possibly British made? Thanks for the help. 

It's always sad to lose a font of knowledge, but especially so when the individual shares broadly.  And a dog person...sigh.  Godspeed, Eric.

You know we are going to get emails from "Lord Joedemort" don't you!  LOL

I just received the NCO Academy leadership tab and I would like to know which academy used it.  The tab is dark blue (not black) and uses snaps to fasten it to the epaulet.   Thanks.

I hunt the old fashion way. I get out and look around at swap meet's and I know a few pickers who will call me if they think they have something that might interest me. I found 4 Westinghouse M1C liners at a surplus store years ago in a box full of helmets and liners that just arrived from Norway or Holland or some place near them. The yokes were tucked up in the webbing. I had never held one before so I stuffed them at the bottom of the box and raced home to do some quick research then raced back to buy them. I paid 20 bucks a pop for each with a helmet. That helmet I sewed the chin strap on was one of them. I sold two and kept two. I picked up the other ones later. That Inland liner was one a picker found and showed me. I could have bought it for a song, but I knew he could use the money so I told him what he had so he could make a few bucks more than what he was asking.

Thank you both for your responses!    I have a strong hunch if it did belong to the KIA Marine it was left behind with his guardian/godmother. I bought it in his hometown, which is what initially led me to the raider ID versus the Baltimore one, but today things can end up anywhere. 

Dare I say it, even his stuff is a bit better than what OP posted.