Yes the flags are wonderful, the same happens here in The Netherlands. Here, war graves at the larger cemeteries like Arnhem/Oosterbeek (UK) and Margraten (US) are adopted by people, meaning that regularly visit, place flowers etc. These adopted graves are usually handed down the family and there is a waiting list of several years for prospective adopters.       The first thing I see here is the early slay grill straight push-pull-type oil dipstick... What is wrong with me?? 😆

Hi. I will have it in hand soon enough and hopefully be able to provide some more photos and questions.    just seems weird as any fakes you find don’t have clips like these, and I can find examples of the same clips/manufacture on other items of known wartime produced articles.    here is one such from an E17 sustenance kit from ww2.  

All of these came from near the Gustav Line in Italy! 

. Hi Kevin,   Thanks for your memories of jeeping back in the earlier days,  I was just stirring the pot a bit with a little silliness . . . . . . . . . .   Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 11  2O25.   ...

An Ordnance one, the 302nd Ordnance Company of the division..  

I remember when all we had to worry about was what shade of green the Jeep should be. Oh and of course if everything on it had the Ford F markings. I had a Trimite paint rep call at the unit whilst we were working on the Jeep back in the 80's. He took away a couple of original still boxed parts with the o.d. green paint finish on them and had it analysed back at their base and returned a few days later with the matched paint in enough quantity to repaint several jeeps. For free as they were trying out their new technology and saw it as a learning curve.  Kevin

A 1st Log Cmd GI who's wearing the Full Color one at the late date of December 1968, he's at the Bob Hope Christmas Show at Long Binh,

The old 43rd Infantry Division as a Scorpion Patch, unit now called the 143rd Regional Support Group of the Conn NG..

. mikie   you went and did it, you muddied the waters again you mentioned carburettor again !!!!!!   You have said you would like to own a Jeep are you Mad !!! all I can say is it was easier back in the day  to own one, when a Jeep was a Jeep, was a jeep, today with all the deep interest in the technical details  it is much harder . . . . . . . . . . . .    Here's another carburettor mystery for you.   The carburettor shown in the Dec 1941 manual, and the following manuals features a protrusion at the rear of the carburettor bowl, May 1942,  October 1942,  June 1943.   Now the problem I have is that I have four carburettors, two ' early ' eight patent numbers and two ' later ' twelve patent numbers, my two early eight patent carbs DON'T  feature this protrusion,  but my two late twelve patents carbs DO feature this protrusion  . . . . . . . . . .   My four carburettors all came off salvaged Jeeps we broke up in the 1970's                Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 11  2O25.   ...      

Cimitero monumentale di Stalieno, Genoa, Italy.