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Nice Bancroft Flighter Cap With Original Box


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Hello,

 

I recently picked this up at an estate sale.  I have never got into headgear, but I know the Bancroft Flighters are desirable.  I guess my main question is how rarer is it to have the original box with one.  In case you can't tell from the pictures it is a Patent Pending one so it is actual war period from what I have read on here.  Anyways hear are the pictures.

 

Thanks

God Bless the USA

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Wake, 

 

I was wondering about that, as all the other badges I have seen on these are the gold ones.  Whats funny is the veterans estate I got it from was in the 4th Infantry in WW2.  Then become a Colonel I believe stateside after the War in the 83rd Infantry Reserves into the 60s.  Would that have been changed post war for that reason...?

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That is a killer cap!!! with the box too...

if he stayed Army, the badge would be gold...the silver badge is USAF post 1947....I would assume the uniform would have changed in 47 when the USAF became a separate branch...having said that, I have seen blue USAF Ike jackets with the old USAAF patch on the shoulder ...which is kinda cool

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