A lot of the 'surplus' is cheap imported crap made to look like military stuff. The authentic WWII stuff is long gone. You can sometimes find foreign made wool clothes that are real Romanian military but finding something that will fit can be difficult.
+10 on that. You have to look very carefully to find actual US military surplus. Local surplus store is simply immense, you had best figure on spending hours in the place. That said, every so often an actual nugget appears mixed in with all the crap. I did find a Swedish pick axe that must have been WWI vintage.
The Idaho Falls surplus store is the one I was talking about - every so often they have good stuff mixed in with the China junk...
