It doesn’t hurt to restore something that has already  been restored.   

Very interesting indeed!

I’m looking for the original NAS patch to put in my mother’s flag box. 

In downtown gadsden there's two stores that I know of, first is Dusty Things. Seemed OK prices were a bit high on most stuff (a beat up alice mag pouch for $27) but there Seemed to be a couple of things that were reasonable. The other store is Gadsden Variety Antique Mall, not much here and prices Seemed high. It seems to be a common thing around my area for ALL m1 helmets to be either "ww2 or Vietnam" this store was no exception a obviously last issue m1 that was missing a bail was "ww2" and priced at $50.🙄

That is Beautiful!  Thank you for sharing!    

Ahhh…thanks for clarifying. They are great pieces. The workmanship back in those days was impressive.

Oh Sorry for my poor communication skills, I don't own any of them, only the original  one I posted below. I remembered seeing one like yours as part of the collection that I purchased mine from. I surmised yours may have come from the same Collector/Collection

Maybe it was worn by a Vet who put a few different badges on it for parades and stuff, there seens to have been a badge pined in the rear of the curtain too. correct?

So you have both versions…that is great! I have seen your numerous posts on your collection. Very impressive!

I think you are correct, unfortunately the islands are really not accessible to the general public without jumping through a lot of red tape and hurdles. That said, it would be a heck of a trip,     Scott