101st Airborne M43 Jacket
Article about: I stumbled across this M43 Field Jacket on eBay earlier today, it has a 101st airborne patch as well as a US flag patch. I believe the M43 Jacket is original; however, I have my suspensions
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I would say it was added post war. I think the flag patch is also a recent production.
John
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the flag has too many stars for a ww2 flag
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You are correct. I thought it was just the offset style. 50 stars.
John
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Field jacket looks fine, but the patches are post war added. If I had to guess this was made up for a re-enactor for Operation Market Garden period..
US flag is a definite non WW2 period flag with the 50 stars..
Smitty
Last edited by Rakkasan187; 04-01-2018 at 03:53 PM.
Reason: spelling
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Thank y’all for confirming my suspicions and for the information!
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