The Minnesota image is excellent, and the first Manila image with Krag, nice locally procured shirt and 'salvaged' cartridge box. Of course interesting with the wristwatch. Thanks for sharing!

While some of the crew of the Quail made it back to Australia on a motor launch, the shop itself was very much beached and later recovered by the Japanese. However, the majority of the crew remained in the Philippines.   If my timeline is correct he would've been on the Quail when it was sunk and transfered over to the Finch for its final month of fighting. His name shows up attached to both ships so I have quite a bit of research to do. Unfortunately this early in the war and with the situation so unstable in the Philippines, some of the records are off. I had an issue with a Marine Wake Island marine piece I previously posted where his muster rolls showed him on another Island months later when in fact he was firmly in Japanese hands. Having reviewed the Submarine records of the Asiatic fleet I can also attest that they were a shinola show. 

What a beautiful grouping and congratulations on your efforts to get it back together.   OD

We visited LBH Battlefield in August of 2017. i had parked under a treee at the visitors center and we attended the ranger talk on the porch. we went out to get in the car to drive to Reno Hill. I kid you not, the temperature was 112*F!😄 Needless to say, we didn’t spend near as I had hoped!😡 Living in central PA, I got my fingers crossed for another visit. I got an acquaintance with a fellow who lives near Bozeman who has studied this for a long time. If I get out there again I have a tour guide on tap!😎   If you get anywhere near Mt  Rushmore, do yourself a big favor and set aside some time for Custer State Park. That’s the Black Hills section of South Dakota. Wifey and I fell in love with the place. I said to her, “it’s no wonder they considered this sacred. If I were God, this is where I’d live”!😎 PTRN

I would gladly trade you one with ear flaps for that one. Dave

If you look at eBay "sold" items and not just asking price, "offer accepted", or ended without bids price, I'm not seeing them going for $80 at all. Asking prices appear to be $60-80 mimicking other's asking price with a few crazy outlyers. Actual sold prices are much less. Also, a buyer knows it will cost a pretty penny to ship this nowadays. It would appear the interest in this item is that it is unopened - not that it contains four of any one item. To open it would change the future value so it will likely remain that way. So you need to find a relatively local buyer who wants an unopened 1952 case of M9A1s to display. Based on that it may be worth more or less than the sum of the parts. I saw some that had actual bids that sold for $14 - $50ish some with cans, some without. Maybe you can find better data. JMO, Dave

Looks fine to me, I had one similar to it years ago. Certainly don't think anyone is faking these (yet) 

Sold on Ebay this morning in the wee small hours.  I went to bed too early!

The Quail made it to Australia - Your guy served on the USS Finch (AM-9) as of March 1942.   From Wiki:   Sunk by a Japanese bomb On 9 April 1942, while moored at the eastern point of Corregidor, Finch was damaged by the near miss of a Japanese bomb, her seams opening and fragments of the bomb piercing her hull. The entire crew landed safely, and Finch was abandoned to sink the next day, 10 April 1942. Many of the Finch's crew served during the siege of Corregidor, though her captain was evacuated to Australia via submarine. The survivors of Corregidor were the first prisoners to arrive at Cabanatuanprison camp where they endured harsh conditions as described by Finch survivor Vernon G. LaHeist in his memoir.[2] Many were later removed to camps in Japan, Taiwan, or China. Yeoman Pratt, held in three camps in Taiwan, was evacuated aboard the destroyer escort USS Finch, and was startled at seeing the name, thinking it had been named for his old vessel, but that ship was named in honor of Lt.(j.g.) Joseph W. Finch, who died aboard the USS Laffey during the battle of Guadalcanal.     Service with the Japanese Navy According to Japanese records[3] the Finch was salvaged and designated Patrol Boat No. 103 in April 1943. The PB-103 served as a convoy escort in the Philippines and Indochina. On 12 January 1945, off Cape Padaran in the South China Sea (11°10'N, 108°55'E), Finch was attacked and sunk by aircraft from the USS Lexington (CV-16), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Hornet (CV-12) which were part of Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Sr.'s Task Force 38 that had entered the South China Sea to raid Japanese shipping.[4] U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949 - Ancestry.com.pdf