I recently picked up this cool Ike jacket and wanted to share it with you guys.
It has a beautiful assortment of patches that include- Army amphibious landing, ADSEC/ETO, Four six month service bars, Army amphibious engineer, ruptured duck, and two first sergeant rank patches. There are also a few ribbons as well- WWII victory, good conduct with two knots?, American defense, and European theater with arrowhead device and 3 campaign stars.
I thoroughly looked over this jacket, and to me everything looks good. Just my gut feeling, but I don't feel like anything was added post war to enhance the desirability. Both the ribbons, and collar discs have the correct period non dimpled clutches.
From the looks of it, I would assume this man was involved to some degree with the June 6th Normandy landings. Unfortunately I found no name or laundry number anywhere, so the chances of researching this jacket's original owner are very slim.
Any and all opinions are greatly appreciated!
Best regards- Jarret
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