Vietnam Era Silk Blood Chit Leather The single horsehide map pocket

The single horsehide map pocket

" AVG pilots often had the blood chit sewn directly into the back panel of their A-2 flight jacket — a practice specific to the Flying Tigers that distinguishes their blood chit from later designs carried separately in survival kits

Knit collar

Domestic Whitetail deerskin weighs roughly half of cowhide at equivalent protection

and South Korean forces simultaneously

Vietnam Era Silk Blood Chit Leather The single horsehide map pocketThe Vietnam Era blood chit was issued to USAF, USN, and USMC aircrew flying over Southeast Asia the longest running blood chit program in American military history, spanning from the early 1960s through 1975. The Vietnam blood chit contains survival text in 12 languages covering the complex linguistic landscape of the theater: Vietnamese (northern and southern dialects), Khmer, Lao, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and others reflecting the