Airborne Overseas Cap

[odiestreasures]

I picked this up at the KC Gun Show this past weekend. It has C5564,8788AH and AG1306 stamped on the inside.

Is there anything here that could ID the unit or person?

 

 

Odell

[cbuehler]

I picked this up at the KC Gun Show this past weekend. It has C5564,8788AH and AG1306 stamped on the inside.

Is there anything here that could ID the unit or person?

Odell

Unfortunately no practical way to ID this. These are the last 4 digits of the mans serial number and initial(s). It was standard Army clothing and equipment marking.

Looks like this belonged to several men in service. The normal clothing marking was like the c5564, but sometimes the initial came after the number.

 

CB

[odiestreasures]

Thank You. Thought this was a long shot, but thought I'd try.

 

Odell

[glenm]

Hi Odell,

 

What sort of cap is it - wool, chino, issue or PX-purchase - and what type of cap patch does it have on it - combined para/glider (and if so, what border does it have) or just parachute or glider only?

 

Cheers,

Glen.

[odiestreasures]

Hi Glen

 

Its a wool cap. Has ribbed blue piping. The patch is on the left side,its dark blue with white edging and a white parachute.

Does this help.

 

Regards

Odell

[glenm]

Hi Odell,

 

See if you can pick a similar patch from the ones on here:

 

http://www.look-out-below.co.uk/uniforms/infcaps.htm

 

and also a similar style cap from the ones above, or the ones on this page (artillery ones, but it's the style I'm interested in):

 

http://www.look-out-below.co.uk/uniforms/artcaps.htm

 

Failing that, can you post a pic of yours?

 

Cheers,

Glen.

[odiestreasures]

Glen

 

It looks like 5th down,right side. But piping and patch are blue instead of red.

 

 

Odell

[glenm]

Hi Odell,

 

That's interesting then - the cap you chose is an issue one (as opposed to the more rectangular ones on those pages, which are either hand-made or PX-purchased), making it a definite wartime one, but then making the fact that it has 3 different GI's service numbers in it unusual - having the same cap passed around three GI's during that short time frame is what's unusual - this is the type of thing that is normally seen on wartime PX-purchase style caps used post-war after they'd been re-issued to new troopers (and with the combined patch being worn, which was virtually 100% the case post-war (some 11th Airborne units took there time changing over)) , whereas the style you chose wasn't really used after the war.

 

Not that it really helps you ID the unit or the person, sorry, as there are quite a few sub-units of divisions, plus independent units, who wore the parachute-only patch for a long-enough period during the war for a single cap to have been issued 3 times.

 

See if you can post a pic though please, as I'd be interested to see the cap.

 

Cheers,

Glen.