shrapneldude Posted April 10, 2009 Share #1 Posted April 10, 2009 Try as I might to stop collecting uniforms that are non-Marine, I've gotten some nicer non-Marine uniforms. This crop came from Charlie aka Bank Vault -- a great dude to trade with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrapneldude Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share #2 Posted April 10, 2009 These I'm not sure about. Kinda look like the late 50's early 60's camo pattern, and are definitely cut in the same style pockets and wasit tabs as the OG-107 uniforms of the day. Can anyone help me on these pants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrapneldude Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted April 10, 2009 Civillian Knock-offs? Foreign? Ultra-rare UDT or SF experimental camo? haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrapneldude Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted April 10, 2009 Here's the Marine hats I got...ERDL pattern camo and / or RDF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted April 10, 2009 Share #5 Posted April 10, 2009 WOW! Nice set! -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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locobuster Posted April 10, 2009 Share #7 Posted April 10, 2009 Wow, Dan, nice card! Christmas '44 was a tough time for the men over in the ETO with the horrible winter, and the Battle of the Bulge raging. With most of England socked in by fog the pilots of the USAAF were left with nothing to do but sit around and think of home. Capt. Dexter Freeman, 20th Fighter Group Public Relations Officer, described the general mood at King's Cliffe: "This has been a period of derangement and uncertainty. A period shrouded with heavy mists and impenetrate fogs clinging to the planes and perimeter like a heavy cloak. "An overflowing surplus of energies and enthusiasm has been built up amongst the men and their equipment. In spite of their hopes for a mission a day, but fifteen of the thirty were sufficiently clear for operations against the enemy. "Occasionally a motor could be heard being tested somewhere on the field which in turn only tended to stir up additional wrath among the men and pilots for now they realized how desperately our ground forces were in need of support. Their exclamations varied from prayers to volatile expressions of indignation but all in vain for the weather clung like an octopus suckling the hopes from the men and enveloping the planes in an ever increasing and tighter cloak of torpid despair." My dear friend Capt. Art Heiden, who had just come home from a full tour with the 79th Fighter Squadron and was in the ZOI as a flight instructor, remembered: "Christmas '44 was a very disturbing time with the disaster in the Ardennes. We were asked to not emphasize this in our mail home. So that card (seen below) was to relieve any undue worries our parents may have had. Actually, I wasn't in Hollywood at that time, just making folks feel that things were well. "Just before Christmas Day, '44, at Tallahassee, we all were aware of the problems going on in Europe. On or about, December 22-23, the advanced fighter trainees received emergency orders to ship-out to the ETO. We instructors were given TDY Orders to the Fifth Ferrying Group at Long Beach, CA and told to pack and return to Base Operations as soon as possible. About dark we boarded a C-47 and headed west. "All I could think of was, Boy, this doesn't make sense its just like the Military, just all backwards. Why weren't they sending us experienced instructors to the emergency in Europe, not the green trainees? They could handle the ferrying of P-51's from the NAA Factory at Mines Field to Newark, NJ for shipment or give us drop tanks and we could fly them to Europe, but then the weather was bad in Europe and all across the US." Didn't mean to hijack your thread here, I just wanted to point out how such a seemingly insignificant item can evoke some powerful memories in some vets. Cheers! Syd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrapneldude Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted April 10, 2009 Didn't mean to hijack your thread here, I just wanted to point out how such a seemingly insignificant item can evoke some powerful memories in some vets. Cheers! Syd No worries brother! That's so true though. A collector would look at that and not see much, but someone with personal connection, it's a whole different story. I'll have to dig up my post about the two-seater folding latrine and post some of the stories I've gotten from vets who remember not being able to use them in Vietnam haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrapneldude Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share #9 Posted April 12, 2009 Just bought 12 more uniforms yesterday...none of which were Marine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted April 12, 2009 Share #10 Posted April 12, 2009 Oh brother. I hope you aren't married. -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrapneldude Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share #11 Posted April 12, 2009 Oh brother. I hope you aren't married. -Ski I am...and she's the most tolerant woman on the planet. The sad part is...when I hit over 800, I decided to sell and trade a bunch of them off. Just can't pass up the chance to buy more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrapneldude Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share #12 Posted April 13, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bank Vault Posted April 15, 2009 Share #13 Posted April 15, 2009 You got 6-8 more on the way man. As soon as I get them packaged and sent. They aren't as nice buttttt, you can sucker some guy into them I am sure. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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