Hi, would anyone out there be able to give me any info as to whether these are original WWII scrolls or reproductions ?  These are in my collection, but I've heard there are a lot of repros out there!  Thanks Barry  

Sometimes it takes me months or years to research an item. Research is not a sprint, It’s a marathon.

Welcome to the forum. My dad fired a shortened Springfield M1903 for many years in competition, starting in high school in 1927 and ending in 1948, winning hundreds of shooting medals with it. He was only 5'0" tall. He's the guy on the left. He was the #1 rifle marksman in the entire National Guard for 1935-36 with that same shortened Springfield.   When dad was in Vietnam, my older brother took the Springfield and sporterized the stock for lighter carry while hunting. I thought my dad was going to kill him when he came home. Years after my dad passed away, I gave the rifle to a friend for elk hunting.

Checked the roster, there is no Harjo in the whole entire unit history in Vietnam.

Also checking the whole entire 11th ACR roster, as I found a full roster for the whole entire unit online.

Next of kin also isn’t in there, I checked the name and individual years and could not find him. This is seeming hopeless…

Will do

I picked up this pair of (what I believe) to be 356th Fighter Squadron patches (AKA The Red Asses!... someone had a sense of humor). They are painted on leather and never sewn on a jacket. According to the dealer, they came out of the estate of a WWII pilot, but no other information on him was available.     I am not a collector of squadron patches, but I will buy them when they are cheap enough (and these were pretty cheap).  They are about 4 inches across and on a rather thick bit of leather (~1/8th inch thick).  Most of my leather squadron patches are on thinner leather, but Ron Burkey had a nearly identical one on his site.   Like I said, I don't know much, but they seem nice.   Thank you Patrick

Check out Addison's Gun Shop located on 441 between Kissimmee and Davenport Florida.   He has had a pretty good selection in the past

This helmet doesn't need to have belonged to a Marine. It could have belonged to any number of kids who lived in base housing at Quantico who wanted to play army in the dirt. Lots of kids, lots of used military gear, and everyone (at least back in the day) loved playing army in the dirt (we did, all the time, with WW2 issue helmets...)