Hey Chris! Gilles is right, those bracelets were made for the GIs to send home as gifts.
I'm so glad I have it!
It is SO COOL about your Dad's canteen being proof of the 36ths landing on Yellow Beach!
and also that you carried it till you were 20. Do you remember when you first began
to understand it's significance and your Dad's WWII service?
I remember looking at a box Dad had in the attic with a Nazi helmet & hats & flag.
I 'm sure that he had a german luger too, but my mother insisted that he had no such thing.
He probably threw it out so she wouldn't find it 
I have everything else he saved , but that luger.
As a kid, we really had no clue what those things were. I was much older when I fully
realized what it meant that Dad was IN the war.
Mary Ann