Hello all,   Thank you each for commenting, it's much appreciated. Also nice to see some "old friends" drop by!   My best wishes to you all,   Joe

When I was a teenager my mom's boyfriend at the time had this knife in his gunsafe and I remember always wanting it from him, he told me once him and his brother found the knife in a old house they was in, I don't know what pattern it is but I know it's a Utica 

A long time ago I remember I bought a bayonet from someone that told me it was a brought back from someone in his family, someone ended up messing the blade up doing a annoyed poor job at grinding, but the marks are still present on the knife, I only recently found out it was from the Spanish american war because of the Santiago Cross Made by Simson & Co Suhl for a 1893 Spanish Mauser

Yep, jmd62, thanks for reminding me. I actually should have thought about pairing up any such related same department patches, metal badges, and helmet shields together from the start of this thread. Unfortunately, there wouldn’t be many departments where I would have all three, but it would have been interesting. Maybe other Forum members could post their “sets”.

What EE87 wrote: that Japanese firm made really high quality military badges.  Thanks for posting that badge, 34Rangers!

Same boat, same year (1946) but two different engraved renditions of it...

Hi to all american friends,   On monday, I searched on the forum and and found a post (# 908 WW1 Painted Helmets) of devildog34. In his case, a marine of the 20th Co. 3rd Bn 5th Marines  moved to 2nd Bn 23rd Infantry. His helmet has the 23rd infantry insignia but no EGA.   Not sure it's the same story for the helmet of the 3rd infantry Brigade HQ.   Have a great day.        

Looks like an early APH-5. Manufactured late 50's but used much later as well. Yours has had the oxygen mask tabs removed. Nice example.

This is the Translation from the French, of the description of film.   This is a German propaganda sequence broadcast by filmed newsreels (filmed by "France Actualités" and reprinted by "Deutsche Woschenchau"?) in movie theaters and at the Fernsehsender Paris. A long cohort of English and American prisoners getting off a bus arrives at the Gare du Nord to the jeers of the crowd, flanked by German soldiers and officers. The people present, held back by the German soldiers but also by French police officers, insult them, spit in their faces and even go so far as to violently beat them as they pass. During the prisoners' march, two men in civilian clothes are also seen flanking them. As these are unedited rushes, the scene is reproduced several times from different angles and approaches.   The Film,it as you'll see is not on YT, but on a French site, thus not sharable except to linking site. https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/vdf07000861/prisonniers-anglo-americains

Good morning all. I have been trying to locate as many different original variants of the 8th Airforce wartime shoulder insignia to add to our mobile displays here in England at the old wartime airfields over the summer months. So far we have managed to acquire these 4 wonderful different variants. I know we have many more types to try and locate but even with the humble 4 we own their differences in materials, patterns and construction methods it's already making for a wonderful display. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Greetings from accross the pond in England.