Same here. I was very quickly outbid on the suits and jackets. Ended up winning some non-mil items and when I went to pick up, the daughter of Mr. Bassett was allowing people to pick around the house/garage. I ended up with a lot of really cool photos and documents from his career. But yeah I never stood a chance after seeing what those suits ended up going for.

Jacket is dated June 17, 1944.    It's a very nice jacket.    Wade

MIUW were shore-based anti-submarine warfare and port security units is my understanding.

https://www.horsesoldier.com/products/books/47433 Here's a rare book signed by the author !

A close up of these U.S. NAVY Tape and NAME Tape for future Naval Reference on the ones that were used by the Navy then. Tapes are Theater Made, but where? if not South Vietnam then the Philippines perhaps, Guam???

Is this UDT patch from the era?, Says on the other side the first word may be Mobile, Mobile Inshore it's sewn to a Fatigue Shirt by hand over a ghosting of a real large oval like patch, it's Tapes interestingly have ben sewn on by Bar Tacking, which as you see have started to become undone. 

Here is the stuff I bought in that group.  What is his, or is even correct, I don't know.  I THOUGHT the footlocker was his!  Obviously NOT..... POW Trinidad Colorado?  No.  That was a camp where they kept a lot of the higher and nasty Germans.  So.. I definately made a faulty memory mistake there.  And, thought you all here would enjoy the error.   Off subject.  I did pick up a 'dismounted' US raincoat marked POW.  In its pocket was a movie ticket stub.  Trinidad 'Kino' .. Movie theater.  A pow ticket to the camp movie theater.         Oh, the binoculars look like they were painted over in spots <eye end especially> with thick dark paint haphazardly.  Protect from reflected like?    Any and all input is welcome.  I'm a noob and ignorant.  

This is a short post.  A think I got this because I like Mexican Border related items but more specifically because this was from my home state Arizona.              

I have no provenance but these first two ovals are the ones I have listed in my photo reference of ovals as the ones worn by the 139th Airborne Engineer Battalion (Photos 1 thru 4).   These other ovals I have listed for the 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion (Photos 5 thru 10).