No Mikie, they are watchamacallits, fastened to the kanoogabubble with a murphypin. 😁

Dang, I remember fighting with one of those contraptions many times in the late 1980s..

Another photo of the display case dedicated to Lt. Robert F. Toner.  Not sure why my first photo posted upside down but this is another view of it.  

Is this patch and medals named to a pilot lost during the raid on Bougainville in 21th March 1943? 

Here are a few of mine.

I'm usually hesitant about modifications or anything if I don't know the story behind it. Being a sailor myself from a much later era, I changed that thinking a bit when I found this one. I can actually imagine a boatswain on a mid-watch doing this fancywork. He really made it his own, My favorite part is how the correct period issue sheath was cut in half and sewn back together right handed and the retaining strap was cut and pieced back together for the larger handle. It's a correct Camillus and other than a little bit of line, it's all original just rearranged. Anyway, I  really fell for this old guy and thought I'd share. Thank you 

. Then and Now shots Ste Mere Eglise.   As I stood in the road yesterday I had to step back onto the pavement to allow a modern  Jeep to pass me to the junction, I thought it funny that here I stood trying to capture the spot that a Jeep was photographed in 1944 and a modern Jeep filled the scene.  Anyway I got a shot of the scene once the Jeep had cleared the spot, I would imagine that the driver of the modern Jeep was blissfully unaware of the event at this junction 82 years ago.     The other interesting feature in the wartime photograph is the Signal Corps engineer stood on the rear of a Dodge truck with a long pole fixing the wires across the street between the buildings, also note the machine gun fixed to the grille on the front of the Dodge.    The same thing happened to me several years ago when I was stood in the street in Carentan and again then,  a modern Jeep entered the frame and I posted my comparisons back then on the forum.          Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 19 May  2O26.   ..  

These are also a fair reference and were the only reference for a lot of years. I still have both and use them at times.   

I am looking for some more info regarding this US 1944 machete. Was this a common combination, a US machete with a British scabbard? What do the specific markings on the British scabbard mean? Thanks

An awesome day with the Grand daughter to be sure. Here in Michigan we have a propeller from the plane. It is in the Upper Peninsula in the town of Lake Linden which was the home of the radio operator Robert LaMotte. I have visited it many times and it is near the county museum but the museum has never been open so I am uncertain if they have any of LaMotte's items.      Scott