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NEWEST AIRBORNE TROOP CARRIER GLIDER PILOT UNIFORM...NICE


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501stGeronimo

Picked this one up, couldn't beat it for the price...Has British made Glider Pilot Bullion Wings, Brit made 9th AAF and ATC SSI. The Jacket itself is a British ETO Officers Uniform and Brit made OS Cap, Hope you enjoy it!

 

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501stGeronimo

Did you get any luck in finding a number inside it?

No, I haven't looked much yet. His pants came with it. There is a number in there.
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  • 2 years later...

I was offered this uniform way before the original poster bought it.

 

The biggest red flag I had was the amount of oak leaf clusters on the Air Medal. Four OLC on the ribbon meant that this Glider Pilot would have had to have participated in five combat operations. Now IX Troop Carrier Command's baptism of fire was D-Day, followed by Southern France, then Holland, then Bastogne resupply and finally the Rhine Crossing.

 

Five operations in total so it was feasible that Duncan had participate in all five however, I have the full Glider Pilot Air Medal roster for D-Day and there is no Duncan in the list. This meant that what was on that ribbon bar did not accurately reflect things.

 

As such, I passed on the uniform.

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