It’s a cool jacket… most guys will say it’s cool… most won’t know about Foss… or if they do, they’ll assume a tribute jacket… the guys were just letting you know about the details and age..    saddle soap will be fine on this hide..   wear it good health… it’s a nice G1

Hi Mikie, thanks for that info.  I'll send you a PM, I'd love to connect with that person as well if possible.  I might just have to build another wall hanger to go with my M1 /m14 hybird.  

An interesting short film on the airfield. RAF Silloth was the setting for the Tyrene Power / Betty Grable film  A Yank in the RAF in 1941.

Both of my WWI M1852s.   my great-uncle's pictured here,  have blades that are noticeably curved when compared to the scabbards.    I wonder if the curved blade puts a strain on the straight scabbard over time.    Thanks for posting all your research on the early M1852s and their predecessors.   

Congrats, keep on hunting.

Well done, keep hunting.

. Before and after shots.   The first photo shows a Jeep sat waiting to be hit by the shock-waves of one of the 1950's nuclear bomb tests, the second photo shows the remains of the engine, gear-box and transfer case after the explosion.        Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 22 2O25.   ….

. Hi Johan,   Great photo and one I have never seen before, and as you say this one seems to have been all over painted, even the wheel bead-locks. The second and third vehicles are somewhat similar to a Dodge that I owned in the UK for a short while, mine was the Canadian built version.  The VC1 is extremely difficult to climb into when the canvas is on, if you notice how high the side entrance is where the standing soldier has his hand situated, on the half-ton and three quarter ton the doorway was deeper cut.    Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 22 2O25.   ….

Thanks decwriter for confirming.

. Hi mikie,   did you ever know what you wanted to do or be when you left school, I  never had those traditional desires of being a train-driver, Fireman, pilot etc . . . .    My history teacher suggested I become a archeologist as I had consistently good marks in history , I still wasn't so sure what I wanted to do and I was worried about being an archeologist, I wanted something paying well I didn't want to see my future end up in ruins . . . . . . . . 🤣   Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 22 2O25.   ….