At first i suspected an original cap that was re-purposed, BUT Just pulled one of my Air Corps Caps.   Interestingly mine has a leather head band WITH Silk lined. ALSO and as Mr. Jerry mentioned not as curvy?   Now thinking a movie prop and not original, but I am no expert BTW That union label was used 1934-83. Did military items have Union Labels? Photo's posted for comparison

This collection represents 30 years of searching.   This is a collection of engraved  WWII POW mess kits and canteens from soldiers and sailors captured on Bataan and Corregidor.    These would have been engraved during their captivity, some in the Philippines, some in Japan. They are pieces of art. When I have a canteen and mess kit  to the same person, I photographed them together.   I will add a bio for each of these POW’s when time allows.   If any of you have examples of these, please add them to the thread.   I know that the World War II museum in New Orleans has examples of these, but I’m not sure how many that they have.    

Resurrecting this for comment or sharing any others out in collections

I picked up a M1909 Army myself back in April. There Great pistols. 

Thank you Thorin!! I like to share!!

Leave it as is. Get a McCord shell is the 180-230 range heat stamp and show it off as one of the few that have this kind of set up. Getting the leather liner strap and a chin cup will really make it "Top Notch"!   Here is mine:        

We used to fish for channel cats at Edward’s Ferry, just downstream from there. Even made a Beer, Bait & Ammo Buggy out of an old metal refrigerator shell by welding bicycle forks and wheels to carry coolers and gear down the C&O Canal towpath!😎 We could tote all our equipment right to the riverbank, fish all night and return home in the morning to clean our haul!😄 I think the biggest result of this Union debacle was the creation of the Committee on the Conduct of the War by the Radicals in the Republican Congress. They used it as a “Star Chamber” to weed out Union commanders who were soft on slavery. I believe that Stanton and the Republicans prevented McClellan from winning the war in 1862. Pinkerton was an abolitionist and fed Little Mac fantastically inflated reports of enemy strength. Mac believed he was outnumbered by 2&1/2 or 3 to one, which definitely influenced his decisions on tactics and strategy. Whether or not Lincoln was part of this, I haven’t decided. But  it was a given fact that had Little Mac been successful, he was a shoe in for yet another soft on slavery administration in the White House: I believe they deliberately sabotaged him until they could make emancipation part of the war. Thoughts on this are welcome.😄 PTRN  

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Named lot Charles R. Kirkbride III he served with the 2nd field force in Vietnam  his assigned unit with the 3rd army  I was looking for the date in the inside pocket and I found his personal pocket map of SAIGON in beautiful condition  this lot will always stay together the map is going to be framed along with both unit patches and his rank patches they will be repos because his patches should stay on his uniform rest in peace Charles R. Kirkbride III

Great collection!