For just a second I thought that was one of those rare 6-wheel jeeps 😁.  mikie

Did he stay in service post war? I was given understanding that the "Flighter" cap with a patent number were post war and the "pat pending" marked caps were wartime. Nice either way.

The Arizona Chinese flying cadet patch is better behind it!

WoW--- A Great group with Photo of him and the history on him 

I think only type 3 and 4 have the amoeba shaped eye. Nice find. 

Picked up this nice named late war Crusher recently. It's named to "John W. Williams" 

. Hi Johan,   Late last night and early into this morning I got caught up in watching a guy pull an abandoned CJ5 Jeep out of a forest in America where it had stood for 25 years,  The chassis was so rotten he cut that up and acquired a replacement chassis,  The body was so bad I couldn't believe he was going to attempt making and replacing panels himself, for all the hours and costs I thought he would just buy a reproduction. It was fascinating watching this guy a true engineer he can cut and make gears himself, he also made his own tools for jobs he didn't have tools for, as I said I was fascinated and watched fourteen episodes back to back.   However here is where he fell foul of many ' real ' Jeep enthusiasts, he wanted to fit an electric motor drive in it, the online abuse he received was tremendous,  his reply was go and pull your own Jeep out a forest and rebuild it and then do what you want with it.    I haven't watched this episode yet featuring the electric motor, it shows the electric motor on the left and the original Jeep gearbox on the right, apparently he has already made a conversion plate on the gearbox to mate up to the electric motor, he needs to shorten and re-spline the gearbox first motion shaft to fit into the electric motor.    So even though he hasn't kept the originality of the Jeep I continue to watch a man following his dream . . . . . .      Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 17  2O25.   ...

President Jimmy Carter served aboard the USS Pomfret SS-391 from 17 December 1948 to 1 February 1951 as his first submarine assignment .  I couldn't find a period photo of him serving aboard this particular submarine but I did find this 1952 photograph of USN Lt. Jimmy Carter serving aboard the USS Barracuda.    

Yes you have a great mint example of a WW2 era 101st Airborne Division SSI.  Based on Mark Bando's research you have what he refers to as a Type 3 (attached tab) "amoeba-shaped eye" patch (see link).   https://www.101airborneww2.com/eaglepatchcorner.html    

. Hi mikie,   a while back I saw a comment that you made that you have an aversion to ladders, this week I have been doing ladder work cutting all the heavily laden branches down off this giant tree which needs felling.  If it falls into my garden then there are buildings to either side of it and so this camera angle is the only safe place for it to fall, reducing it's bulk will prevent damage to other trees as it falls.  If it fall backwards then there are several electrical cables across the rear of it just visible either side at the top height of the ladder.    I purposely left several inches of each branch to hook the top steps of the ladder over as I work my way upwards to prevent the ladders falling sideways as the tree sways in the wind, it's almost like being in a sailing ship's rigging.      Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, April 17  2O25.   ...