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    A couple months ago i was in northern Indiana on hwy 20 very near the Ohio border. I stopped at a surplus store and on the trailer for the store it said "Mickey Mouse boot man". Ir something like that. Turns out he has several atorage barns of these and sells to the Amish.

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    Used to wear the white ones while an Infantryman in Alaska.

    IIRC the white was for cold, dry climates and the black ones were for wet, cold climates like Korea.

    The valve was used to relieve internal pressure while flying at higher altitudes.

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    I was in the Corps stationed at Willow Grove N. A. S. mid '60s. I worked with the Navy riggers and boots similar to those pictured were attached to anti-exposure suits for ASW flight crews over the north Atlantic.

    Of course most of us "borrowed" a pair for deer hunting in the Pennsylvania snow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phydeaux View Post
    boots similar to those pictured were attached to anti-exposure suits for ASW flight crews over the north Atlantic.
    They do look like they were attached to something too...
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    Would you happen to have any pictures of the suits and boots?

    If I recall my Dad's story correctly. He was a radar tec in the early 1950's. And did test flights in B-29's from Maine to Greenland. They were not issued life vest do to the extreme cold water and the poor survival.
    He's been gone some time now and the stories are getting a little fuzzy.

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