UDT shirts details

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This shirt stirred a few different opinions as to whether it was real or not, through a little research I feel it's the real deal. The thing that kinda bothered me was the fact that guys were so quick to dismiss this shirt as a fake for what I feel were some close minded reasons....anybody interested in those reasons can go and read the topic. Anyway, I though I'd show some examples out of my collection to show the various ways that UDT and SEAL shirts were worn in the 60's and 70's.

 

 

 

Shirt from a VN era SEAL who just missed deployment, got this shirt directly from the guy.

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These shirt all have the "U.S.NAVY" tape that some thought was commercial/fake.

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This shirt was also discussed. I won this shirt off eBay and when I got it yesterday I found out that the shoulder patch is one I have never seen before, I didn't even notice it until today. I have never seen a UDT patch with UDT-11 on the bottom, they almost always say Team 11, 12 or 13. Also, it appears that another US NAVY tape and jump wing(Army jump wing) were changed to these shown.

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The back side, you can see faint traces of where the original patches were and you can also see that these current patches have been on there for a really long time. This shirt is probably from around the 1964-66 period.

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These pics show the same kind of US NAVY/jumpwings though the photos are a bit fuzzy. These pics are around 65 or 66.

 

More later....

[Mr-X]

Thanks for showing us. They are very nice examples.