31 minutes ago, Johan Willaert said:

 

My favorite jerry can from my collection...

Used as a roadsign for the Command Post of the 5th Engineer Special Brigade off Omaha beach in June 1944
One of two known, the other one is a Water can in the Omaha Beach museum

 

 

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Hi Johan,

 

it looks like you can lead the way showing your favourite can, I am lost,  none of mine compare 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 15 July  2O26.

 

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I hope you guys don’t get in trouble on the forum for showing off your cans 🤣. 
mikie

1 hour ago, mikie said:

About 10 years ago I went to a nearby town to check out a new bookstore. In one corner of the store sat a young lady behind a table wearing a ridiculous mushroom hat. I had a good natured laugh and had a pleasant chat with her about mushrooms and photography. Her name is Anna and her passion is hunting and photographing mushrooms and fungi. Her photos were quite beautiful and I bought a small stack of them. 

Here is her website, but it looks as if she hasn’t updated it recently. Anyway, give it a look and remember that there are people out there with as much love and passion for all kinds of subjects as we have for history and militaria. 
https://www.thefriendlyfungus.com/

mikie

 
The mushroom girl married a fun guy.

12 hours ago, mikie said:

About 10 years ago I went to a nearby town to check out a new bookstore. In one corner of the store sat a young lady behind a table wearing a ridiculous mushroom hat. I had a good natured laugh and had a pleasant chat with her about mushrooms and photography. Her name is Anna and her passion is hunting and photographing mushrooms and fungi. Her photos were quite beautiful and I bought a small stack of them. 

Here is her website, but it looks as if she hasn’t updated it recently. Anyway, give it a look and remember that there are people out there with as much love and passion for all kinds of subjects as we have for history and militaria. 
https://www.thefriendlyfungus.com/

mikie

For cremini sakes, I hope you folks don’t give me shiitake for one last post about mushrooms.
 I used one of Anna’s photos to make this little diorama to adorn my garage bench. 
Notice the crow. I befriended the crows at my office by sharing peanuts with them for several years now. My friend writes as yet unpublished sci-fi and children’s stories. I’ve been acting as an unofficial editor for him for years. He challenged me to write a story for children too. I have absolutely no writing background but it sounded like a good thing to try. So I’ve been spending odd time over the past year writing short stories about my crow adventures. No sense writing if nobody reads it, so give me a yell if you want to take a look at it. No worries if you pass on it. I’m not trying to button anyone down. The morel of the story is that you never know if  something small will mushroom into something big. 
Mikie

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From my small Shoebox collection.

 

looking through a carton of paperwork today I rediscovered this page of French postal stamps celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of D-Day, which I bought in 1974 with the intention of framing and hanging on a wall.  Sometimes it takes a while to getting around to doing things !!!!!!

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 16 July  2O26.

 

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From my small Shoebox collection.

 

back in the mid and late 80's American Jeep enthusiast Ray R. Cowdery wrote two books on the ' All American Wonder ' the quarter ton truck,  note he used the correct term quarter ton truck.  I bought this page of ' stamps ' he published mid 90's with the intention of framing and hanging on a wall. These could not be used for mailing they were simply an image that could be attached to letters and envelopes. 

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 16 July  2O26.

 

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From my small Shoebox collection

 

rediscovered today a wedge of original 1945 Lubrication Charts for the quarter ton truck, these were intended to be folded in half and inserted in the 1944 TM9-903 Technical Manual which should be carried with each vehicle.  Published eighty-one years ago today 16 July 1945.  Note again no use of the word Jeep, only 1/4 ton truck Willys / Ford. 

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 16 July  2O26.

 

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On 7/15/2026 at 2:32 PM, General Apathy said:

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Hi earlymb,

 

thank you,  nice cans,   I have real affection for wartime ' Jerrycans ',  German, British, American,  currently in need of German 1937 and 1938 examples, often undated.  The one chained to my Jeep is a German 1938 example. 

 

My German can collection taken in 2021.

The first American made cans were copies of the German can, photo in Cuba by LIFE magazine 1941

My example of an American manufactured ' Jerrycan '

My experimental Gas-Can cap found here at the village dump.

The Patent application for the experimental cap

Post war advert for surplus cans 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 15 July  2O26.

 

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Hi Ken,

 

that's a nice collection! I have an early, undated can somewhere as well, I'll see if I can dig it out. If I remember correctly, it has a post-war layer of green paint. That very early US can must be extremely rare! 😮

 

The early German cans can be distinguished by the simple 'X'-shaped stamped reinforcement ribs on the sides; while the standard/later types have the 'square' in the middle.

 

 

Whilst trawling through piles of old paperwork I came across this that was sent to me back in January 2001.

Thought it might be of interest to anyone that hadn't seen it before.

Kevin

 

1 hour ago, earlymb said:

 

 

Hi Ken,

 

that's a nice collection! I have an early, undated can somewhere as well,  That very early US can must be extremely rare! 😮

 

The early German cans can be distinguished by the simple 'X'-shaped stamped reinforcement ribs on the sides; while the standard/later types have the 'square' in the middle.

 

 

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Hi earlymb.

 

Thanks appreciated,  The US cans also have the earlier simple ' X ' shape pressed into the sides, however the Americans used spot welding to fix the handles and the spout to the body of the can, not welding as the German cans do.

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 17 July  2O26.

 

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1 hour ago, Escht said:

Whilst trawling through piles of old paperwork I came across this that was sent to me back in January 2001.

Thought it might be of interest to anyone that hadn't seen it before.

Kevin

 

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Hi Kevin,

 

thanks and very interesting , I was hoping to post some photos of some of the French ' invasion ' currency I have,  I think the ones I have, have the French flag on the reverse.  I recently had to pack away a lot of my collection pieces due to having telephone engineers working inside the house fitting fibre-optics and presently can't recall which carton I packed them in, hopefully I can return to doing this when I re-locate them. 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 17 July  2O26.

 

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Hi Ken

The 2 types I have as an example, 

Just now, Escht said:

Hi Ken

The 2 types I have as an example, 

The 100 Franc notes appear to contradict what the information says as they say series of 1944 yet have FRANCE on the reverse, according to that info FRANCE didn't appear until 1945.........

1 hour ago, Escht said:

The 100 Franc notes appear to contradict what the information says as they say series of 1944 yet have FRANCE on the reverse, according to that info FRANCE didn't appear until 1945.........

All of these AMC issues for France are Series 1944, including those issued during 1945:

 

Dan

I got these from a house clean out.

 

Someone told me that they could be useful to military vehicle collectors?

 

What do you think?

Popped up in my feed, thought id post it here. Grab a coffee, its a decent watch.

Taking note and looking out for medical related stuff, but couldn't resist pausing and taking a look at that interesting looking blade. 

17 hours ago, Escht said:

Hi Ken

The 2 types I have as an example, 

Since you showed us yours, I’ll show you mine. I have a few pieces of Allied invasion currency for France and Italy. Besides the bills, I also have a 2 franc 1944 coin. 

And from the other side of the world, here are some Japanese invasion currency issued by Japan for the Philippines occupation. There is also a few pieces of currency issued by various Pilipino resistance currency. And last but not least is the crudely printed 1000 peso note issued by Japanese forces who had been forced up into the mountains near Baguio during the liberation in 1945. 

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Well we will all be lost on Tuesday next week when the forum will be completing an upgrade. So wishing the forum a successful upgrade and speedy return .

 

 

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 17 July  2O26.

 

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Hi Kevin, jump ship, Peter, mikie, Mankybandage

 

Thank you all for posting the wartime notes and the 1944 dated coin, welcome to Jumpship for joining in, and look forward to coming back and really reading the last few posts and watching the restored D-day video,  sadly can't do it today I have a rendezvous to go and sort out some issues with a local friend's Jeep.  

 

p.s. yes I have also run out of ' likes '. 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 18 July  2O26.

 

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So yet another early 5am start for the flea market.

This time I did really well and didn't buy any wooden airplanes.

I only bought an old early brass model and a wooden tank

Also following on from recent money topics I picked up this French Franc that had been re purposed as an I.D. Tag for a member of the RAF.  Not done any research yet into the name and number on the tag, I say a tag, it hasn't been given a hole to hang it on anything so could be a sweetheart type item.........

21 minutes ago, Escht said:

Also following on from recent money topics I picked up this French Franc that had been re purposed as an I.D. Tag for a member of the RAF.  Not done any research yet into the name and number on the tag, I say a tag, it hasn't been given a hole to hang it on anything so could be a sweetheart type item.........

Apparently joined Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and stayed in RAF until 1927 ( sorry not WW2 )