. Hi earlymb,   thank you for your photos of WN60 and the beach, also the bocage embankments and how difficult it would have been to assault up those slopes carrying everything a soldier carried and hands occupied carrying a rifle.  Sad how much those young guys far from home fighting a war with little time for the enjoyment we get from driving small peaceful country lanes in a Jeep.    Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 26 2O25.   ….    

There are several on gunbroker right now.  

Out of “Likes”, but thanks for posting the photo of him in uniform!

Interesting, I hadn't realized that. Did they continue to use them after WWII?

This is my similar. Again it came out of the bush with other legit Navy medals. It wasn't in collectors hands where someone messed with it.  I don't see a maker on the ring but my eyes are not great. Years ago the consensus was that the medal itself was not the Navy variety. Odd. 

Awesome.  There is another scene in the movie where the beach master got a Bren gun carrier started by whacking it with a swagger stick. You should have had him try that on the Jeep. 

Thanks - I'll definitely give both a try!

Hello, did the us navy ever use a14 oxygen masks for its pilots? If so does anyone know a time frame of when they were used?     Thank you, Landon Goodwin

Great patch!  So if the ID on the back is accurate (303rd FS of the 337th FG), this was a training unit stationed mostly at Sarasota, FL, obviously with the 3rd AF, 1942-44.  Maurer has its brief history on pg. 367 of "Combat Squadrons...."  So the other variations are of the same cartoon character, but Navy units.

The buckle was the personal property of the Lae Colonel Roger HJ. C. Donolon, 1st Vietnam MOH recipient.