That's brilliant, thanks for your help Dominique.  To answer your question the first patch's tab is attached Barry

Packing up!

The frame or the guidon?

i was drooling over the Okinawa flamethrower ike jacket.

my canteen has been thouroughly cleaned 3 times and it still smells like rotten eggs and it is really strong

Thanks :) Friend collects militaria too but not US items. So next time i'll give him something from Indochine or Algeria war...if I find !

for some reason this is getting the least amount of views out of my three posts. maybe i need to put more pictures and info in.  

correction of my post: he joined the 41st signal corps in the sixth army

It has a slight smell to it but thats probably because its hasn't been properly cleaned in 81 year's. Anything old and vintage like that has different smells to them some you can get rid off some you cant. It may also come down to your own tolerance level as well. Some people cant stand them smell of anything musty and old and others can.    And smells are very dependent on what was last in it or on it and everything in between 

I believe it was 26 x 36, but I'll need to double check when I get back to it.