I see... But wouldn't it seem rather unnecessary to carry one, when a towel would do the same job? I have never heard of wash cloths being carried, but that is an interesting aspect. In the end, it does not have to be private purchase, but could just be a cvilian wash cloth in OD green, that was used by a civilian...   Jules

I checked the oics again and the name "Russel Smith" is written both inside the jacket (together with USS Valley Forge), the cap AND the ribbon bar. Maxbe it is written on the Army dress greens as well... Maybe the veteran could be looked up with the help of his name and duty station "USS Valley Forge".

I think, that it is kind of unusual, too, and not authorized, but one thing, that this forum has taught me, is, that as soon as one says something did not exist, a picture turns up. Maybe he was a Marine involved in the battles of Guadalcanal or Korea with the 1st Marine Division (I don't know if the patch would have to be different for the latter case) and then switched to US Army in the 1960s... Just a possibility, though maybe far-fetched. But I wouldn't write it off as utterly fake just yet. Something, that makes this grouping hard to prove right is, that there is no name whatsoever on the ribbon bar. But check for "Russel Smith" in the jackets. This name is written inside the cap, so maybe we could find out more with that :))   Cheers, Jules

Here is a James F Fritz who served in the infantry in the ETO during WWII:    

That is a great idea! It could be done something like the "Real or What"-sections, where members would then post "locators" for certain places like in your place Mobil, Alabama or in Europe somewhere   Cheers, Jules

Pictures of my dad’s Navy flight jacket. Old school pilots would have the parachute riggers sew the patches on and the pilots would give them a nice tip.  These are my dad’s aircraft, squadron, ships, and centurion patches, which were given for 100 successful carrier traps.

The next step is to fill the seam lines with lacquer based putty filler then sand it down and airbrush over. I had some great success with this on the Blackhawk I built. 

Thanks I’d love to see the picture,  I had to buy this crate it’s hard to find Texas WW2 POW items especially something like this. Thanks Rusty Sharp

I’m looking for groupings if you find any.

I kind of messed up the previous post it was my very first time.  I had a couple questions about this spam can with this ammo one with the MLB the corrosive primers does that make it more valuable and two is there any way to tell if this is part of NATO surplus ammo?  Thank you for your patience