My sister and her family visited for Easter, and my nephew found some of my spray paint (I've been working on a project) and decided to spray paint some SPAM to "make them look like army guy food" as he put it. 

Yes, I agree but it hasn't been much of a commemoration in the past few years.... From the program brochure: program of festive and cultural events including parachute demonstrations, parades of military vehicles, fireworks, concerts, reconstitutions of military camps, giant picnics, book fairs, exhibitions, dances…

Officially they were known as US Army Signal Corps RL-31 Reel Equipment. They took DR4 or DR5 Wire Drums.   Below some photos of said items from my collection    

Fred A Braemer is listed as having been trained as a bombardier at McChord Air Base in Tacoma, Washington and was an enlisted bombardier.  Since the Tokyo raid occurred before bombardier wings were authorized, if these were his he picked them up sometime later.  

An example I’ve recently seen. Already have one forum members opinion that it’s not good. Definitely not period, but maybe a Peter make - rather than a fake? Chime in with opinions. 

Here's some M 1852  swords that clearly have straight blades.    

I don't know about other swords, but both of my WWI M 1852 swords have visibly curved blades that are not photographic illusions.  This sword was owned by Capt.  Irving Reynolds "Skipper" Chambers (1893-1979),  USNA 1915,  only son of Capt.  Washington Irving Chambers (1856-1934), USNA 1876,  the "Father of Naval Aviation", who as  an ensign was one of six officers attached to U.S.S. Thetis under Captain Winfield Scott Schley during the "Greely Relief Expedition"  to the Artic in 1884, and later the first officer in charge of naval aviation in 1910 before there were naval aviators.   The younger Chambers purchased this from the Annapolis naval tailor and outfitter,  F.J. Schmidt (1859-1939), where you see a lot of uniforms and swords of Annapolis men from the first quarter of the last century.   Chambers is pictured with his sword in this 1931 photo of the officers and crew of the four-stacker destroyer USS Philip (DD-76).   https://www.usni.org/people/washington-irving-chambers   CONGRATS,  warguy, on picking up a beautiful   pre-WW2  M 1852 sword and scabbard!    

"Field" Police. 

I have all the parts for the trigger group. But something is seriously wrong with the trigger pin. It is stuck solid. I’ve tried banging away with a hammer and punch (at first quite gently but harder as my frustration grew). It moved out maybe half a millimeter. And that’s it. Notice that one of the punches has bent, but the pin won’t budge. The housing came with the trigger installed, but without the plunger assembly. I can only guess that at some point someone took it apart and removed the plunger and put the trigger back on, maybe with a wrong pin? After my grind job, the trigger swings free. I am perplexed. 😕 The only thing else I can think of is to drill the darned pin out and replace it. 🤬 How is your day going?  mikie

Its just my opinion, but I would lean more towards "sweetheart" or patriotic jewelry, myself. But still really neat.