Help With Dating WWII/Korean War HBT Airborne Officer Shirt NAMED

[militbuff]

Hi All, 

 

I just picked up this shirt and and its double, minus the name tag, at an estate sale.  It’s an HBT shirt (not sateen) and it looks like it’s had a US Army tag removed from the right chest.  I can’t find any tags inside.  Does the shirt style itself (HBT with plastic buttons) date from WWII or is it a post WWII/Korean War era shirt?

 

Does the name tag, missing U.S. Army tag and the captains bars and airborne wings date the wearer to WWII or the Korean War?  In other words, when would this shirt, combined with the insignia, have been worn?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks!

Dan

[militbuff]

Here’s a closeup of the captain’s bars, jump wings and name tag from the first shirt and another of the second shirts’s captain’s bars and jump wings.  The jump wings look like a different make.

[Tonomachi]

This paratrooper wing is the one of the early ones that came out in basic, senior and master.  The senior and master paratrooper wings weren't approved until 1950 so in my opinion it couldn't have been around in WW2.  So my guess is that this uniform was worn somewhere between the 1950s and 1960s.  

[KurtA]

Could be  Navy Lt.  Rank on both collars and they look to be USN style Lt bars with the connector bars flush with top and bottom 

[QED4]

I am thinking it is Air Force because the AF wore that style uniform and officers wore two rank insignia whereas the Army wore one rank and one branch of service insignia. 

[militbuff]

Thanks Tonomachi, Kurt and QED4.  It looks like Tonomachi and QED4 are correct.  I was able to find his name and it appears that he was born in 1930 and died in 2020.  He was in AF ROTC in college and served in the USAF.  It appears he was a Russian translator/linguist.

 

So he must have worn this uniform from the late 1950s - early 1960s based on the captain rank.  Very interesting as I thought it was a WWII HBT!

 

Thanks to all for your help.