REPRO - PRU badge

A copy of the Laotian Airborne troops beret badge from the Vietnam War.

Reproduction of our JOINT CASUALTY RESOLUTION CENTER (JCRC). The unit was established in 1973 and is based in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. The main mission was to search for the MIA/KIA.

More information about the unit can be found e.g. at http://longtrip.org/JCRC-FSS-1974-75.html

Used trousers (Trousers, Man's, Cotton Wind Resistant, OG 107). Sizes Regular Medium. Contract DSA-100-68-C-1467. Fabric is torn (1x1cm) at the back.

Unused forearm for M16A1 rifle.

Unused Trousers Trousers, Man's, Cotton, Wind Resistant, Rips-stop, Poplin. Size X-Large Regular. DSA Contract 100-69-C-2149. Manufactured by M.L.W. Corporation.

Original Unused (NOS) Blood Chit South East Asia - West Central Pacific. Each copy has its serial number. Year of production 1967.

Used ERDL Coat, Man's, Tropical. On the shoulder is a patch 2nd B, 75th Infantry Ranger/Airborne. Above the pocket is a Basic parachutist badge. Size Medium Regular. Year of manufacture 1968.

Coat, Man's, Camouflage Cotton. Size X-Small Short. Camouflage ERDL. Contract DSA100-68-C-1562.

Used ARVN backpack. The backpack has minor abrasions. Nice condition. The lumbar strap has stains.

The Associated Press made an unprecedented commitment to reporting the conflict: It gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau and these men created one of the great photographic legacies of the twentieth century. Collected here are images that tell the human story of the Vietnam War, as we watch the American presence in the war swell from a trickle of military advisers in the late 1950s, through dramatic operations involving thousands of soldiers in the 1960s, to the fall of Saigon in 1975. These are pictures that both recorded and made history, taken by unbelievably courageous photojournalists. In a moving essay, writer Pete Hamill, who reported from Vietnam in 1965, celebrates their achievement, focusing on five masters who took many of the photographs in the book: Horst Faas, Henri Huet, Eddie Adams, Nick Ut, and Phuoc Van Dang.