sactroop, thanks for your input. And yeah me too. I’m completely intrigued by it.

Hello, Thank you for the information. Regards,

I believe it is WW2.  However, because of the rehandling, it's probably not identifiable when it was made during WW2.

Fantastic collection!  Thanks for sharing. I am intensely JEALOUS!  Good work!  👍

@Celia  Nice buckle!  Thank you for sharing pictures of it.  Unfortunately I can't help you with what "Pusch" means.  Usually someone has their name engraved in the spot where "Pusch" is at.  Maybe it was a nickname your father's shipmates gave him?  The 45 47 suggests that this was an end-of-tour buckle made in 1947.   What years was your father in the Navy?  Do you know what ships your father was on?  Clearly the USS PRESIDENT JACKSON (APA-18) is not the ship engraved.   I know of one other buckle (two years earlier) from 1945 with the same ship engraved.  There's a possibility that the ship is just a generic rendition of an idealized navy ship rather than an actual rendition of the ship he served on.

Too  bad it was split apart and the flag and chit sold separately. Why bother with that if you're not gonna split the whole thing up? Any closer pics of the WWI wing?

MR_ZAM, thank you for sharing this.  The 1/1 between the B, and N and the shorter webbing w/o the 1910 wire hook does indicate an earlier example of the M8 sheath. Looking forward to what others have about the knife itself.

Very nice uniform, the prewar uniforms are (in my opinion) nicer than wartime. The material is heavy and has a nice color, along with a flair of old fashioned hold over style.

Can you find any sign of marking on the guard?  Pictures of the knife might help.

Small world, I spent the last months of my enlistment at Bergstrom from 76-77.  Assigned to 67 AMS and spent a few months working out of 91 TRS doing mechanical eval of photo systems.