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[yokota57]

US Army / 14th US Army Security Agency Field Station. Hakata, Japan. Japanese-made "Sharp" in the original cellophane.

[Cobra 6 Actual]

You’ve got a great collection, yokota57!

[Cobra 6 Actual]

This was one of my early purchases, obviously before I knew how to tell a fake engraved-in-Vietnam lighter from an authentic one:

 

[yokota57]

Memorial Day 2026

[Cobra 6 Actual]

Thanks for posting that, yokota57. 

[Cobra 6 Actual]

Don’t recall if I already posted these matches on not:

 

 

These came in the “Accessory Pack” (also called a “Comfort Pack”) in the Vietnam era C-Rations (technically, they were “Meals, Combat, Individual”). And they were one of the reasons everyone had to purchase a lighter. I think these matches only worked perhaps 50% of the time.