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Are these 1950's staff sergeant stripes?


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ThompsonSavage

Found them on a 1941 dated first pattern HBT jacket. I am going to sell the jacket so I want to label the stripes correctly.

 

They seem to be OD embroided stripes on a blue twill woven background...

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Army Sergeant (not Staff Sergeant), used from Feb. 1951 till June 1958. This type replaced the 2" wide "Combat/non-combat", blue & yellow chevrons and they were in turn replaced by the yellow/green chevrons that came out ahead of the then new Army AG44 uniform. Note: these actually continued to be used for a few years past 1958. These twill background stripes are often confused with similar chevrons used during WWII that were of the same color, but the stripes were on blue wool.

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Negative on the chest tapes

Right. Well what you have here I would say is a late Korean War era worn item sans name tape. Starting in and around mid-ish 1951 name tapes started to be seen, not just in Korea and Japan, but Army wide, in this period they were worn over the left pocket. While alot of men, officers and enlisted, did have them on their stuff, many more did not as it was not required by regulation, it was a rather personal application. This is why I say this, because at the end of 1953 into early 1954 the Army mandated by regulation the wear of not only the name tape but a new tape, the now well known U.S. ARMY tape, this tape was to be worn on the left while the name tape was moved over to the right.

 

As to the odd use of the obsolete M1941 OD HBT shirt this late would not be that odd at all, there a numerous examples of this old type worn well into the 50s, as late even as the mid 50s, to with, M1941s with U.S. ARMY tapes and White name tapes with those new small sized 1955 regulation Specialist ranks.

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