Hello! I recently acquired this supposed Confederate Bowie, I know these things are faked to high hell and was hoping I could get some opinions on the authenticity!

There is only one way to settle this! One of you Jeep owners needs to hire a crane, a transport ship and a landing craft. Then try it out.  mikie

Yes after the war the USMC gave Holland a bunch of equipment including ambulances and handcarts

I read about them many years ago, but can't find anything on the internet now. A friend of mine who was an EOD tech recently passed and left me a few objects, this being one of them. All the other pieces were relatively common. I imagine items from this program are pretty rare, I haven't been able to find anything on the internet about them at all.

I actually have two more ambulance jeeps, Ill post pics when I get them home. I ran out of storage for awhile and some things my wife might not want to know about 

Maybe this image will magnify better:     If not, the photo can be downloaded in high resolution (TIFF 29MB) at this link: https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/26-G/26-G-3423.html   The jeep is slung at the rear in this fashion: The eye of the line is placed on the cargo hook. The line is led into the right wheel well, then under the frame rails, and emerging from the left wheel well. The line is then led to the cargo hook, and the other eye is placed on the hook.   Under high resolution, you can actually see the line emerge from beneath the left frame rail, before continuing upward and out of the wheel well.   JT        

You're welcome.  I'm glad the information may be of assistance.  Don't forget to download those NARA Morning Reports at the end of my post if you haven't done so already.  Those may help as well.  Take care and God Bless! 🇺🇸

That device is so cool.  Wow, learn something new every day.  Thanks for posting and the history behind it.

I just found this. 

When I enlarged the picture on my computer there is a sort of haze effect around the jeep, crane, crane cables and 2 of the deckhands on the landing craft but not around other areas of the photo, which taken with the very strange way of slinging the jeep makes me still think it's made up photo somehow. I'm no expert on photography and quite happy to be wrong but there is something not quite right with that photo.