Artefact Archive

A fine uniform grouping consisting of Petty Officer Third Class Roger L. Weir's US Navy uniform and a sublime USAF Linecrewman jacket, which he wore recreationally. An incredible photograph from his post-service years shows Weir wearing the jacket on his BMW motorcycle.

This seemingly unassuming tigerstripe shirt was previously owned by Maurice Neill Prew, a Florida-born CIA agent, otherwise known by his pseudonym; ‘Roy V. Watlington’. Worn during his service in Vietnam as part of the Revolutionary Development Cadre Program - Plans Division.

This first-pattern Tropical Combat Coat was once worn by Col. Oliver Mayhew Whipple Jr., a USMC commissioned officer who served in Vietnam as the company commander of Fox Co. 2d Battalion, 7th Marines from 1965 to 1970 and later as a Marine Advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Corps until the end of US involvement in 1972