Based on Kurt's suggestion and cross checking USN Muster Rolls, this may be the jumper's owner -   B*I*R*C*H*,  Thomas W           Service number     201 79 70         *** He was born in Massachusetts and died in Rhode Island.   From an on-line obit -   'A graduate of Chelsea High School, Tom served with the 1147th Company with the CCCs in Warner, NH and in the Pacific theatre during WWII. As a naval medical corpsman attached to the second marine division, he was at Saipan and the invasion of Okinawa. Later he trained as a pilot until the wars end. He and his late wife, Audrey Peacock Birch raised their family in Damascus, MD. He retired from the Navy as Chief Warrant Officer and moved to Saunderstown in 1976.'   Hope this helps your research.   Larry

No BA-42 batteries are C cell batteries.  I’m not sure if appropriate in WwII but AA batteries are BA-3058. Regards

First picture was on a 1943 menu card

I went through a bit of a phase hunting out Jeep related postcards and anything else that I could find. 

It's not something I'll seek out, but if I find a set in a thrift store or a surplus store tote for a good price with most of the patches I'll bite.  Will they resell well?  I doubt it.  This one's all-Velcro with no unit patches, but it was only a few bucks.   One exception was a weird Navy UCP I found on eBay I could match with photos of them being worn.

Gooder!   hyrax222

I'd be interested River Rat!

The 'Royal Navigator' of King Neptunes' Court searching for the King to welcome him aboard     link -->> Neptune's Band of Brothers In 1936 close to 30,000 sailors traversed the equator and participated in the largest Crossing the Line ceremony the Navy has ever conducted.   THE ROYAL WORKS A SOUVENIR OF THE NEPTUNE PARTY HELD 20 MAY, 1936 IN THE link -->> UNITED STATES SHIP LEXINGTON (with many photographs)        

Sorry   OG 107