Show me your Vietnam displays

[Gunbunny]

Thanks for your thoughts regarding my recovery! Patrick, here's a Thai item you might find interesting. It's a handmade model of an F-111 that doubles as a lamp! It has a small light bulb mounted under the nose and was powered by a battery mounted under the stand. The battery was made in Bangkok. This thing is big, almost two feet long, and has working swing-wing and ailerons. Enjoy! Jeff (Gunbunny)

[r.blue]

Patrick,
A friend of mine gave this hat to me. Her late husband [American] brought this hat home from Vietnam....he told her that it belonged to an Australian friend of his who was killed.
Your hats reminded me of it. You've got some nice looking stuff there.
R.Blue

[Simon F]

Well as promised I became an association member to be able to add to this brilliant thread.

Here is my first ever Vietnam purchase. I decided deliberately to make it early advisor era and try to build up from there. This is a nice shirt with the wide cuffs and metal starred buttons. Great MACV & Ranger arc SSIs with nice original metal collar insignia.

I actually managed to buy this guys OG-107 shirt from ebay recently to add to the group.

Does anybody know how I could find some more information on this guy?

[Simon F]

Opposite side, the cap is named "Red" makes sense "Red Bonnette"!

[Simon F]

Close up.

[Simon F]

And finally the SSI.

[Patrick Dempsey]

Patrick,
A friend of mine gave this hat to me. Her late husband [American] brought this hat home from Vietnam....he told her that it belonged to an Australian friend of his who was killed.
Your hats reminded me of it. You've got some nice looking stuff there.
R.Blue

Hi Roscoe,

that is a nice item.

Two of the most steadfast allies the US had in Vietnam were the ANZAC units.

I have some Australian uniform items to photograph shortly.

Thanks for the compliments,


Patrick.

[Patrick Dempsey]

Hi Jeff,

any info on where it came from?


101LRRP: always good to see new postings, welcome to the thread!


Patrick.

[paul.j]

slouch hat

Patrick,
A friend of mine gave this hat to me. Her late husband [American] brought this hat home from Vietnam....he told her that it belonged to an Australian friend of his who was killed.
Your hats reminded me of it. You've got some nice looking stuff there.
R.Blue

Looking at the photo of that slouch hat it does not look right,the bash,insignia and the construction.
Cheers,Paul.

[Simon F]

Well thanks for the welcome Patrick

Here is Bonnettes OG that I picked up by good fortune from ebay.

[Simon F]

Here are my other two fatigue shirts. I have yet to get any decent jungle gear but I am hoping to rectify that soon.

This is my Korean vets shirt with second award CIB.

Sorry in advance for the crappy pics.

[Simon F]

Close up Cav SSI

[Simon F]

Again 24th ID.

[Simon F]

Second award CIB

[Simon F]

Under the Cav patch the ghosting of an arc and other SSI perhaps 82nd A/B. Any ideas guys??