Yeah my question is how to put the fittings on the harness, I know where they need to be 

May be a nice early Yellow Grenade. If the color of the yellow is accurately represented in the photo, I'd say it is period. Two tests, if you could get it in hand put it in the sun for half an hour. If there is no smell of paint, then at lease you can assume that all the volatiles have dissipated indicating the paint has been on the grenade for a long time. If you smell anything after the body has warmed up, you should pass.  Another more immediate test is, the paint should be hard, see if you can indent the paint with your fingernail after a hard press. If your fingernail indents the paint, then I would also not make the purchase.   Can you show the top of the spoon to see its markings?  

Thank you both for your input! I'm glad to know it seems all good. 😁

Good lord, what a mess.  I don’t even know where to start….    Some of the patches look to just be laying on the tops.  And crookedy patch rotation, unevenly spaced from shoulder seams - I would have LOVED watching somebody show up to formation in one of those things…    

Thank you so much for sharing these; I really appreciate you taking the time to pull those records. I have come across several of them in my research but a couple of these are new to me and add helpful context to the diary entries.   I have been researching this collection fairly extensively over the past several weeks. It actually caught the attention of the Head of Special Collections and Archives at Clemson University Libraries, given Kemp's connection to the school; she described it as one of the most complete WWII collection their institution had encountered. We had a formal meeting to discuss potential placement of the collection.   Given the completeness of the grouping I am trying to get a better sense of where something like this sits in the current market — particularly for a named 8th Air Force KIA archive with a continuous diary. Any insight the community has on comparable groupings or recent sales would be genuinely helpful.   Again, thank you for the research contribution; this is exactly the kind of community engagement I was hoping for.

20th Air Force Jeep at Kadena AB, Okinawa.

> Dismounting an LCVP

That poncho liner is a super find!

Those are wwii winter boots. Probably not what you are looking for.