Vietnam Uniforms

Vietnam uniforms

UPDATED 1/21/2012

Helen (patches) Musgrove grouping

original ERDL modified shirt , custom vest, hat , her books and auction papers from her estate auction . She was GI Jill on armed forces radio in ww2, spent 6-1/2 years in Vietnam as a war correspondent

her original in country made vest and name tapes with original patches .

her original boonie hat from vintage productions , her two books , Vietnam front row center , and the camera that came with the shirt and vest

her original 69 dated ERDL shirt , highly modified jungle jacket , slant pockets removed and new straight pockets added with French style vertical pockets , is a small long , with many in country and issue patches with direct embroidery of the name and her paper

close up of her shirt

close up of the back of her shirt

pants are very small size , I think they were most likely from an ARVN trooper .

custom pants as worn by ARVN and US Advisors , pants are rip stop , 69 dated erdl , with a custom French type pockets on the legs , I have seen many of the ARVN with this modification on there shirts and pants ,only one i have found on a us issue garment

inside of pant leg showing modification

original grouping from an advisor to the arvn 4th battalion , 3rd regiment . this is an original grouping , it had been packed away since the man got home in the 60,s. all items were packed together when i got them

a rare printed patch in a theater made pocket hanger, the sun glasses and lighter were with the group, the lighter looks theater decorated with a real beer can and us insignia

private purchase early Vietnam worn camo shirt in good condition, worn in the field and shows some damage , is a large size

very cool theater made boonie hat worn by this advisor , this is just how I received it after it was unpacked, the hat has a flash from the seventh group with a master jump wing and a us on the flash, there is a major rank on the front. hat has a leopard type of pattern

	theater made boonie hat out of the same material as the shirt , matches the shirt and one set of pants , just a slight bit off in the base color .
	interior of theater made hats , the one boonie hat has a silk lining .

one pair of 1st pattern jungle pants cut off to shorts and one pair of private purchase pants , note the Mitchell pattern belt, this is a Korean war era camo strap he used as a belt .

note his item is for sale in the for sale section

a mint and unissued set of john wayne dense tigers

a very nice tad p0le sparse marked us -m , like new unissued

john Wayne sparse variant shirt in very good condition , us m

a like new south vietnamese tiger shirt , advisors type sparse pattern

rarest of the tiger patterns , zig zag , per johnson's book on tiger. with matching hat . mint unissued .

this is another set of rare zig zag pattern shirt and pants ,( pants are not show ) you dont see this pattern often

a very nice condition john Wayne dense shirt marked a-m

a real nice pair of small size pants in tadpole dense pattern

I started trying to collect one garment of each kind of tiger that was used in the war. i never completed it due to my interest in nva and vc captured militaria