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Pascal Stolte of the Netherlands recently sent
the above photos and said that he had found "a U,S. fork with 2 letters and 8 digits stamped on the backside, It looks like the first 2 letters of the soldiers name
and the service number.
Since the fork was found near the drop zone of the 508 PIR, I think there is a big chance the fork belonged to a soldier of the 508 PIR.
I was wondering if you are willing to help me out."
Happily, we were able to quickly identify the initials
and ASN as
belonging to then Cpl Jeff Harris of Hq 3rd. It didn't take very
long to provide Pascal with more than the quick identification that he
had asked for as numerous documents and news articles were provided as
well.
Note that somehow Harris was able to get his hands on
a stamping kit and punched his initials "JH" and ASN deeply into the
fork handle. He did a very neat job but turned the zero 90 degrees
by mistake. |
