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. 

The above comes from a never seen before film, at least in America, of Allied POWs being transported through Paris to trains back to Germany, here you'll see U.S. Paratroopers  and Glidertroopers of the 101 and the 82nd, more 29th GIs among others, British Para, British Commandos, British 50th Tyne Tees Infantry Division Tommies among others. As you'll see, there being groups of French civilians spitting, cursing, at tjhe POWs with at least one man punching a GI real hard right in the face as he walks by, in another view from another edited view on the Deutsche Woschenchau newsreel, a man, a civilian kicks an allied soldier, maybe even trying to kick him between the legs.   I was shocked when I seen this, never seen this before, why are thy  doing it? One site, a Reddit, discuses this footage, and basically narrows it down to these people either being hardcore collaborators, or having lost family to the Allied Bombing Campaign of areas all over France in the Spring, or just being paid to do it by the Germans.    

29th Division patch on a POW in Paris, captured in Normandy..

Here's a great opportunity to drop A LOT of $$ into a very cool project!   

Fence, I think your bayonet being a French 1842 bayonet can be ruled out. I have a copy of one of Ian Skennerton's old annual magazines; "No 21, I A & M Collector" series, page 95, dated about 2002 ; which has a short write up on these bayonets by a collector of same in Queensland, Aust.. It does not have a lot about markings on the bayonets, but does say many lack any markings, has a list of rifles that they are used on and country's that used them and also that there are slight differences between makers. It does say that the French 1842 bayonets have a deep square stopped fuller/grove as on photo below, it is unlike your example above and most other examples of similar made bayonets. Cheers.

There is a diorama displaying the remnants of the Zero at the Pacific Aviation Museum in Hawaii.