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Uniform Grouping B17 Aerial Gunner 710th Bomb Group 8th Air Force


KurtA
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SSGT R.W. Withington was apparently quite the uniform collector. I obtained this pile of uniforms from my picker awhile back. In the grouping is a standard EM 4 pocket, an officer 4 pocket converted to EM, and an officer 4 pocket converted to an EM Ike jacket.

Only the EM 4 pocket has his name in it, but the other two have the exact same rank and sew-on ribbons as his named jacket, so no doubt they were later pickups.

 

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The 4 pocket EM and Ike cut-down have the cotton 8th AF patch. The converted officer 4 pocket has the bullion. All three have identical sew-on ribbon groupings. 2 have wings.

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That patched A4 is the absolute icing. I have a uniform grouping to one of his squadron mates, and another member has the guys ike jacket.

 

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