. I forgot to say.   My daughter Lauren was born whilst I was writing the book, she was two when it was actually published,  and she was featured as a baby in my arms at the rear of the book when published. My long suffering wife Tanya endured five years of me sat in my study nightly before it being finally publishing. My sister helped cover my daytime workload at our biscuit warehouse.     Lauren enjoyed sharing my hobby and vehicles whilst she grew up, and still takes interest while married now and two children.             Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 17 April  2O26.   ..

. Meeting several Jeeping friends on the Swanage heritage railway station   While I was in the UK I took the opportunity to meet up with friends one of whom is a volunteer on the Swanage heritage railway.  These two plaques are mounted on the station wall. The one plaque regarding the efforts of Nicholas Winton to rescue children in 1939 preventing being killed in concentration camps and arranging new lives form the in the UK is covered in a 2003 film called ' One Life ' featuring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, a film well worth seeing.        Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 17 April  2O26.   ..

Phil, thank you for your response and my apologies for the delay. I wholeheartedly heartedly agree with your answer. These patches are well made for a merrowed edge patch made in theater, that might have given me pause to think that they were not US manufactured.   Thanks again and I will continue my search for those patch anomalies.   Andreas 

. Hi Johan.   thanks for adding the photos of the three books, I knew Henri-Paul Enjames and he very kindly said that my book had been an inspiration to him to write his two books once full colour was available for printing, he bought items from me for inclusion in his books, sadly he died long before he should have .   Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 17 April  2O26.   ..

. Hi Old Dude,   thank you,  very kind comments.     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 17 April  2O26.   ..

Your bayonet started out as a P1913 and was made for the short lived Enfield P1913 rifle.  When the P13 rifles were re chambered to .303, they were called the P1914 rifle. Your bayonet fits both. The British did not rename the bayonet. It remained the P13 bayonet. The US made the P14 rifles for the Brits during WWI. The US contract was nearing the end, when the US entered the war in 1917. It was decided to keep making the P14, but re chambered it to 30.06. It was re named the US rifle Model of 1917...more commonly known as the US Enfield rifle. During the transition from British to US, the bayonets that were left over from the British contract, were simply used for the US Enfield.  At first, some of them had the British markings crossed out and had a US mark crudely stamped on it.  Your bayonet is a bit rare in that it as the expected P13 marks on the left side, but has the US marks with the ordnance bomb and eagle on the right side.  I cannot tell if the British marks were stamped over, or if the US markings were stamped on a "clean" ricasso.  The British marks would be a vertical string of the British Broad Arrow, a crown, a number, and finally an "A" which signifies American manufacture.  If you can't make out any hint of British markings on the right side, then it's pretty rare.  Even if the US markings are stamped over the British markings, then it's still fairly scarce. The scabbard is strictly British, and not issued to US troops (as far as I know).  Hope this helps. Marv

I don't know how I missed this but here is the patch that was on this uniform (Photo 1 & 2).  How do I know this will I just so happen to have photographs (Photo 3 thru 8) of one of his other uniform tops (Noland) with this patch sewn on the right shoulder which I missed while going through my reference material the first time around.  What is a little strange about this uniform is the name tape and USN tape appear to have been replaced.  It might have originally had the same type of tapes with the wider zig-zag sewing perimeters.  So if you can find this patch you can restore this uniform however this patch will be difficult to locate as they are scarce.   This was never UDT but during the Vietnam War UDT did work with IUWG.  

Definitely a possibility, asked an Army friend and he hadn't recognized it. I had found possibly the same site also. It is definitely a good copy if it is, it even has the surplus smell to it like all my other stuff that has tags. 

My guess would be that the bullet was slowed down enough to had penatrated this case and stopped before traveling all the way through.  Perhaps it hit a enbloc clip for a M1 Garand that slowed it's travel. Neat round, probably has an interesting story.

Unfortunately, it appears to be permanently closed....