It looks good to me.

Yes, the Devil's Brigade famously employed the Johnson M1941 machine gun to great effect.  These Forcemen are seen on the Anzio beachhead with their M1941.     Charlie      

I am late to the party, but thank you for sharing your story and history behind the patch! This has always been one of my favorites from 7th Group.

Welcome o the Forum, Admiral.   Nice blade.   The sheath is not original to the knife, as you may know.  It is not USGI and although a solid piece looks to be handmade based on the stitching and other features.   Stick around.  If you are a knife nut you'll like it here.   Regards, Charlie

Wow, that is really interesting!! I learned something today. Really beautiful time piece!!   Chris

River Rat, Im still purchasing off Ebay. Expanding the project. Thanks for the help in the future Doherty Navy JROTC  4515 Barnes Road Colorado Springs, CO 80917

WM, I understand your point and know of at least one other collector aware of this auction, but holding out for an original, named Dewey,  But I disagree that this medal went for an exorbitant price  because its a  "restrike".   It's from the same Tiffany & Co. dies that the originals were struck from 70 years earlier.  There was a small,  finite number of these struck--- the last of a finite number of "restrikes" that are covered in laborious detail (the research not the reading of such)  by John and Allen in their recently released US Naval Awards of the Spanish American War.   If  it were a similar number struck for,  say,  a Morgan dollar, the FMV would be what, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars at least?  I don't know, I gave up US coin collecting for  US Navy medal collecting decades ago.   And I agree with LuftStalg1s point.   These are collectible in their own right as a genuine, true to the term,  "restrike" and not "copies" or, (gasp)  fakes.    That's why I won't be selling the one I was able to purchase from my friend, Adam, even though I was later able to purchase a couple of genuine Deweys.  Any medal collector that's ever seen a Dewey "in the bronze"  and examined it can fully appreciate the amazing high relief that was successfully achieved in this hefty die-struck medal, that as far as the art of production, I believe is in a class of it's own.    https://www.amazon.com/US-Naval-Awards-Spanish-American-War/      

I pointed one of these belts out to my dad at a gun show years back and his response was 'we didn't have all that fancy new stuff when I was in' (1966-1970). Found a pic of him and two of his nco's wearing these belts later that day. I'll post a pic when I can find it

My mistake, he was a war correspondent   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rare-colour-chronicles-of-wwii-from-london-to-the-fall-of-berlin/vi-AA1AdspT?ocid=socialshare&pc=HCTS&cvid=b5fec562bef040e5bcebf89d8e40ffea&ei=131