mostly60s Posted February 20, 2009 Share #1 Posted February 20, 2009 Mint Unissued GI Towel, but is it from WWII? Got it with a group of stuff from WWII & Korea. Does anybody know what a WWII GI towel looks like? Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted February 20, 2009 Share #2 Posted February 20, 2009 That looks like a recent towel but it is hard to be sure from those pics. Are there any labels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkdriver Posted February 20, 2009 Share #3 Posted February 20, 2009 Most terry towels from WWII were made by Cannon, a now defunct company. They will have label sewn into them that has the original logo. Most towels during that time, carried by soldiers was made of cotton huck, a tight weave cotton, much like old table cloth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted February 20, 2009 Share #4 Posted February 20, 2009 Most terry towels from WWII were made by Cannon, a now defunct company. The company went bankrupt but the brand is owned and used by an Asian company and still sold in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.warlord1944 Posted February 20, 2009 Share #5 Posted February 20, 2009 they look like mine from the 1980`s dutch army ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkdriver Posted February 20, 2009 Share #6 Posted February 20, 2009 The company went bankrupt but the brand is owned and used by an Asian company and still sold in the US. I did not know that. I do know that the label from old is very distinctive looking from the most recent versions. The old labels were very detailed in the picture of the cannon and balls, and then it looks as if someone figured out that they could save money by using less thread making the logo picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kration Posted February 21, 2009 Share #7 Posted February 21, 2009 I'd say your towel IS WW2 even without a label being present... I have a ton of Q.M.C. items in issue bundles to include towels... Most minty towels I've seen are a rich pea green-khaki some with the blue or black cannon label and some with no label at all.. I'm inclosing a pic of about 15-20 towels (all unmarked) A few years ago I picked up two duffle bags that were stuffed full of unissued large towels, huck towels, socks, drawers, undershirts etc etc... I've seen nothing on the market these days that even comes close to matching an original. Kration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostly60s Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted February 21, 2009 Thank you! Your response, as well as the other unissued WWII items that came with these towels, I'm convinced they date to WWII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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