Would like to show off this grouping to William Henry Thomas I recently purchased and then with the assistance of Golden Arrow research, now have his career files from each service. He was born in 1909 in Atlanta, Georgia. He would enlist in the Marines at Parris Island, SC in July of 1928. Would spend the majority of his career stateside as a Motion Picture operator with an apparent stop in Haiti with 1st Brigade from August 1929 - March 1930. Once his initial enlist was up, he would extend for two more years before discharging in September of 1934 as a PFC. Worth noting that he attempted to discharge three month early but was denied due to 55 days lost because of contracting a VD (If you're going to get in trouble, that's one way to do it!) William would then join the Coast Guard as an Apprentice Seaman in March 1942. He quickly rose through the ranks from S2C to S1C to Coxswain before the end of 1942. During this time and for the entirety of his Coast Guard service (32 months), he would be stationed in Curtis Bay, Maryland, training recruits before a medical discharge as a Boatswains Mate 1st Class in November 1944. His medical discharge was due to hearing loss and difficulties. He would live until 1991 before passing away in Ohio. This is one of my favorite groupings to date and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do. Sydney      

I'd love to have a C-130 seat/chair for the office as well (I know someone who has one and it's awesome). But I fear I'm already pushing the aviation "theme" limit of the room with the spouse - we share the space and I have a bunch of other aviation-related collectables in there already (!).

I know that the ATF ones are better, I'm just hoping maybe I can get a good alternative so I wouldn't have to pay as much immediately.

Would be better off in the living history/reenactment section of the forum, as for answering the question go with ATF. Much better quality and wont fall apart on you, HTC in the UK could probably also make you a very high quality piece of kit as well. 

Love the anti Axis.

PM me with what you are looking for.  I have a number of used Krag parts from an estate.

Three of them listed from the same seller. These are interesting as I thought the die for the front of the wings would be recessed into the die, not proud of the die.

Nice save!

Nice finds!

The USA made suspenders and bags from At The Front looks really good. Saw a reenactor with them at a memorial day living history event, they were aged beautifully and looked original.