Another variation of this wing is the so-called "upside down tear drop" jump wing. These can be found with the same catch as your wing or with an egg-shaped catch.

Centurion or Poulan Auctions sold one in 2023 for over $3000   Keith

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QUESTION re: the butt bellows pocket on P44 tousers:   Some of the ones I've found for sale have the butt pocket removed (I can see where the original stitching was). Since anything carried there would not only add weight, but would make it difficult to sit on one's butt or crawl on one's back.   My question is whether it was common for Marines cut those bellows pockets off (I sure would have).?   Thanks,   zk

Caption is paratrooper being loaded…. Released on June 11th 1944 taken when? thought you’d like some of the helmet markings

More Ernie Pyle 2 on Iwo Landing on Cape Gloucester (?) and last one on Normandy beach loading  wounded paratrooper 

Going through stacks of 1944-45 dated photographs approved for release by the Signal Corps and or BuAer.. I pulled out a few… most are kamakazi attacks or island combat pics.. a few European theater… here are just a sample   The first is actually picture captured from a Japanese soldier in 1945 taken in 1941 on Guam.. executing three Americans (?)

Post Korean War  

The cap band backing piece was introduced in the 1947 uniform regulations.

7th Army botch job, a WWII one, the entire Seven Steps motif shifted when embroidered, or is it a case of the triangle was not embroidered big enough, wide enough??.