CNY Militaria Posted November 20, 2016 Share #1 Posted November 20, 2016 Some of you may have sen this before on the internet, however for those who have not, I wanted to share it here. Unfortunately there are a lot of names in the jacket, but the Soldier who owned it has his name rather faded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bobgee Posted November 20, 2016 Share #5 Posted November 20, 2016 Wow! Quite a piece of history! Bobgee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirsca Posted November 20, 2016 Share #6 Posted November 20, 2016 Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted November 20, 2016 Share #7 Posted November 20, 2016 Very cool! Is that one of the prototype jackets they wore? I'll need to dig mine out, it looks a bit different than mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted November 20, 2016 Share #8 Posted November 20, 2016 Not the same as my jacket, which has high pockets like the first pattern HBT shirts... One thing I think is AWESOME is the Burma Star ribbon... I've got a uniform to a 10th AF Combat Cargo crew chief that has that in his rack even though it was totally unauthorized according to a post I made asking about it. I wonder if this one didn't start life as a normal MARS jacket, then had the chest pockets removed and replaced with the lower pockets, maybe sourced from MARS pants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted November 20, 2016 Share #9 Posted November 20, 2016 Justin that is one amazing jacket.The MARS patch is beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY Militaria Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share #10 Posted November 20, 2016 Not the same as my jacket, which has high pockets like the first pattern HBT shirts... One thing I think is AWESOME is the Burma Star ribbon... I've got a uniform to a 10th AF Combat Cargo crew chief that has that in his rack even though it was totally unauthorized according to a post I made asking about it. I wonder if this one didn't start life as a normal MARS jacket, then had the chest pockets removed and replaced with the lower pockets, maybe sourced from MARS pants? It certainly looks modified. Unfortunately there are no tags in it. Thanks for checking it against yours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted November 20, 2016 Share #11 Posted November 20, 2016 Awesome piece of history, Sent from my XT1031 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY Militaria Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share #12 Posted November 20, 2016 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaxon Posted November 27, 2016 Share #13 Posted November 27, 2016 Wow, killer jacket. Love everything about it. Tics all the boxes. Would be a cornerstone of any collection. Interesting how he has 2 British Commonwealth medals, 1939-45 star and The Burma Star. Perhaps he was with Wingates Raiders prior to joining the task force? Really great piece. Thanks for posting. Cheers, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytiger Posted November 27, 2016 Share #14 Posted November 27, 2016 I have a 10th AF pilots medals/patch group. He has 3 Brit medals and RAF Wings in the group. I am assuming he was prior RAF then in to USAAF but so far NO records on him other then he was a member of Hump Pilots/14th AF Assn after the war. No serial number with the group so hard to sort out. Archives ck so far had nothing. Possible grave headstone on him but Natl. Cemetery will not release any data on him referred back to St Louis. Point is maybe these folks worked with the Brits for a while and decided they should have their service ribbons, etc. IF they were prior Brit service and earned the medals then they wore them with nobody questioning AT THE TIME. Anyhow a very neat shirt with killer patches.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilHar Posted January 13, 2017 Share #15 Posted January 13, 2017 A really great jacket and, as stated above, the inclusion of the British ribbons is interesting. I have seen American ribbon bars with Burma Star ribbons before; I wonder how many of these were self-awarded, totally unofficially, to stand out among other Asiatic-Pacific veterans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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