Welcome Hollis, I run Michigan's Military Heritage Museum, glad you joined up and you will find a lot of helpful info and people here. Feel free to reach out if you ever need assistance.    Scott

Good evening! I am just stopping by to introduce myself. I am a retired costume designer and vintage clothing dealer and am currently the textile and clothing specialist for a Maine historic society. I am delighted to tell you that we have a nice collection of locally owned and worn military uniforms & accessories. I am having a grand time researching these pieces and the men and women who served. We are in the midst of planning and preparing for our summer opening of exhibits focused on the 250th Anniversary, with a lot of our military collection on display. I may be in here asking questions about the details ........   Hollis 

Oh WOW!!! I'm trying to "like" this and it won't let me.  So WOW!  And a heartfelt THANK YOU!!! Incredible!!!!   You know, I was always proud of him, but even more so now. I'm proud and grateful of the things he did for our country. I'm more than a little sad thinking about the things he must have seen and had to do. The images in his mind that I know had to haunt him. I'm proud and grateful he came home and left it over there best he could. He was the best grandpa anyone could ever ask for.  He died when I was 11. My kids can tell stories about him, they've heard them so many times from me.  

Glad you liked them and I am happy to share. Items from this campaign are very difficult to obtain and can get pricey. I collected strictly Japanese for about 20 years in the 80s and 90s. In all of that time I owned one item with Attu provenance. The Colonel who had these photos brought home a Japanese gas mask, canteen, and helmet which we have at the museum, along with his trophy paperwork. Sadly the canteen is just the bottle, the gas mask has no bag and the hose is broken though still all there, and the helmet is missing its liner, its the paperwork that really adds the value to those items.       Scott

I think these are amazing and a great "snapshot" of history.  While most folks don't value them much dollar wise, keep on mind that the Folks who sent these back home, spent a decent amount of their paychecks to do so.  AZ, with your permission, I would like to share my grandfather's from WWI.  He was a Marine.   Thank you for a great remembrance   

A 1919 illustration of a Red Diamond Division Doughboy Corporal Walter E Gaultney,  by noted artist Joseph Cummings Chase,

Lots of topics on Ranger scrolls on forum. Easy to search. Here is one topic   Opinions on this 6th Ranger Battalion Scroll - ARMY AND USAAF - U.S. Militaria Forum    

here are examples in my Rangers group. Right from the vet and have his uniform also    

The old 101st Training Division once again, a summer month during the Korean Conflict.