Vietnam "Serviceman" copies

[octagon]

This is an interesting webpage with pictures of copy guitars bought by soldiers and sailors serving in southeast asia during the 1960's and 1970's

[fatcat]

In '67, my neighbor's oldest son returned from the navy,he'd been stationed at Subic,where he bought a P bass copy and crude Showman copy.Both had Fender labels on them;the bass was a near perfect copy but the amp wasn't even close.He was comvinced that it was an export version but it wasn't.