Timberwolf Posted February 15, 2016 Share #1 Posted February 15, 2016 Hi all, Well I've been looking for a 29th ID uniform for a while and luckily was able to pick one up for a really fair price yesterday. Since I won't be able to go to the SOS and missed out on a great 75th ID uniform on ebay the other day, this worked out as a really great consolation prize. A Wisconsin native T/5 Beck entered the service in 1943 and started and ended his time in the service with the 29th ID's 111th as a battery computer. The whole grouping consists of his Ike jacket, OS cap, 29th ID patched service shirt, 29th ID patched great coat (not pictured) misc. paperwork and two German bringback shoulderboards. Really happy to have finally been able to add a D-Day vet to the collection! Thanks for looking! -Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share #2 Posted February 15, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilgarvan Posted February 15, 2016 Share #3 Posted February 15, 2016 Nice!! Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collector731 Posted February 15, 2016 Share #4 Posted February 15, 2016 Wow that is nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doinworkinvans Posted February 15, 2016 Share #5 Posted February 15, 2016 Awesome uniform dude! Love the untouched look of this...you can always tell. Would love to know what that chest says? It has an "NC"....?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share #6 Posted February 15, 2016 Thanks guys! Awesome uniform dude! Love the untouched look of this...you can always tell. Would love to know what that chest says? It has an "NC"....?!?!?! Thanks! That's actually a footlocker I've literally had for years, parents got it for me when I was really young and it's just kinda hung around lol!. I use it for storage for misc. groupings, but it is ID'ed to a North Carolina vet by the name of Capt. Grover Ritchie from Albemarle, NC. How it got to Northwest Indiana I have no clue! lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViewfinderGyrene Posted February 15, 2016 Share #7 Posted February 15, 2016 Excellent group man! A dear friend of mine who is now passed away was in the 111th, 1st Wave, Easy Green Sector Omaha Beach... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David D Posted February 15, 2016 Share #8 Posted February 15, 2016 Wow, incredible jacket! If you need any help researching it, PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 16, 2016 Share #9 Posted February 16, 2016 That the pin is the flag of Denmark, any idea why it's there, Beck Danish American? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share #10 Posted February 16, 2016 Thanks guys! Patches I'm guessing he was, it was on the uniform when I purchased it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everforward Posted February 16, 2016 Share #11 Posted February 16, 2016 Neat grouping..congrats on the find..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jguy1986 Posted February 16, 2016 Share #12 Posted February 16, 2016 That the pin is the flag of Denmark, any idea why it's there, Beck Danish American? There was another grouping posted with that same pin. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/251220-my-max-show-finds/&do=findComment&comment=2008724 Ben, I'll say that this is definitely a good "consolation prize." You'd have to fight somebody to get something like that if it were at SoS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David D Posted February 16, 2016 Share #13 Posted February 16, 2016 Maybe something within the 29th? Note the other Ike is also from a 29er. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everforward Posted February 16, 2016 Share #14 Posted February 16, 2016 There was another grouping posted with that same pin. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/251220-my-max-show-finds/&do=findComment&comment=2008724 I'd say both of those guys probably visited Denmark on a pass while waiting to be rotated home....Many of the 29th personnel went home through Bremerhaven, which isn't all that far from the Danish border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted February 16, 2016 Share #15 Posted February 16, 2016 Nice jacket... On July 23rd, 1945 200 men from the 29th went to Denmark as demonstration teams and guides in a joint US-Brit exhibition of Allied gear in Copenhagen... See Ewing's Divisional History page 267 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everforward Posted February 16, 2016 Share #16 Posted February 16, 2016 Nice jacket... On July 23rd, 1945 200 men from the 29th went to Denmark as demonstration teams and guides in a joint US-Brit exhibition of Allied gear in Copenhagen... See Ewing's Divisional History page 267 I think Johan has nailed it....more plausible than just visiting the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWIIDADS Posted February 16, 2016 Share #17 Posted February 16, 2016 My father in law went into Omaha Beach with the 29th, served beside them in St Lo and many other times til VE-day. Fine group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hink441 Posted February 16, 2016 Share #18 Posted February 16, 2016 Great uniform. Really like the 29th !! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan2243 Posted February 17, 2016 Share #19 Posted February 17, 2016 Great uniform! I've had two great uniforms slip between my fingers in the last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share #20 Posted February 17, 2016 Thanks guys! Interesting to know about the Denmark connection. Oddly enough I have a "US serviceman's guide to Denmark" from another unit. Guess more GI's visited than I thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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