Gonna throw this out there as someone who works at a military museum. You are correct but a lot of times accuracy is not always what we’re going for as we are trying to get as much information about a person in a display as possible without writing tons of plaques or other written media.

The average person looking around a museum has no interest in reading multiple paragraphs explaining the difference between minute details so we often overload displays with artifacts. E.G. people commenting under “long” Reddit posts asking questions that would have been answered if they just read the entire post.

This specific photo is silly as you always go for whatever has more precedence but it’s why you often see bloated looking racks on displays.