Note that the opening bayonet at top of page has only one pin through the brass grips, small round press button, the quillon? turns back towards the brass grips and the blood grove appears different, and not as wide as most other examples of these bayonets and unlike my example photo at #13 which has 2 pins through grips and wide blood grove with square end. I did happen to find another bee hive marked example, so there are at least 2 of them. 😀 It does have a few better stampings on it, the S+cross on the pommel may be helpful, think I have seen it before. Cheers,

The style differences are interesting for sure, still transitioning from the old standing collar uniforms in quite a few ways.  Lt. Anders definitely used this one pretty hard but it has held up.  This shade is definitely more appealing to me personally than the chocolatey color of the wartime officer uniforms.   I've always been fascinated by the fighting in the Philippines, this was purely an accident but I'm certainly happy with it!  Hoping to have it on display at work for our annual WWII event in a few months.

Hey everybody, recently purchase this purple heart box, and when I say box, I mean only the box and there was the Purple Heart ribbon inside as well. Looks like the family held onto the medal. It is very possibly a killed an action, purple heart and medal.   I thought it was fascinating that the name is still on it. It’s named to a “Sgt E. Gage”. Going to be a nice research project, I wonder if there is any database for the serial numbers? 

Hello all. I picked up this helmet locally and im curious about the liner etc. There is a US 58 stamp inside the crown. Its the tortoise style color inside. The helmet cover is undated.  I believe the liner date reads 1968? Any info helps. Thank yall. 

The M8’s belong to my buddy Barely Lumpkin. i took the MkII’s.

@Charlie Flick I check Rankin every once in a while. Gives a nice overview on Naval items. Thanks for responding!   @thorin6 I found a online version of that https://archive.org/details/flaydermansguide0000flay/page/n3/mode/2up but those coming to this post later may no longer have Internet Archive books available depending on current lawsuits.

I took some close ups of the members in the photo and I see all their name tapes say US Navy so you'd be correct.        

The black is the color of the sterling silver when it oxidizes after the engraver cuts through the gold.....Bodes

The oak leaf emblem on the wing is a navy supply corps, i think.   https://navysupplycorpsfoundation.org/the-embroidered-supply-oak-leaf-uniform-insignia/