A Belgian Artillery Officers Uniform Jacket with shrapnel damage and cool provenance that it was recovered from an attic home in Belgium that was shelled during the Battle of the Bulge causing damage to a wardroble of a WW1 veteran. 82nd Airborne relation per the attached museum tag. "In De...
Nearly 350,000 American women also served in uniform, through clerical jobs, nursing and as part of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP), the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, the Navy Women’s Reserve (WAVES), the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (...
The uniform has an Australian made Paramarine patch on the upper left sleeve and a parachute striker on the left cuff. The Australian made Paramarine patch was very popular with the Paramarines during the war. He has attached a piece of red felt underneath the patch. This practice was commo...
Already a Navy pilot when the war began, in the Pacific he flew from the USS Yorktown, and the USS Enterprise, and participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Solomon Islands, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, and supported US Marines on Guadalcanal. After the war, he held a...
This rare hat features the proper police blue/green wool as one would like to see in Polizei uniform articles. The front displays a machine sewn hexagon Polizei insignia. The crown displays aluminum officer piping. On the left side of the side panel is an edelweiss indicating wear by an ...
name "ruptured duck." Most commonly, the insignia was made of cloth and found in a triangle sewn over the right uniform pocket. It told officers, military police, and other officious types that this was a discharged serviceman who was no longer subject to military discipline. (National ...
familiarStammkenzeichenconsisting of two digits then the Balkenkreuz then the remaining two digits. It must be noted that these codes too were not uniform in their application right away. Some of the older five digit codes are known to have carried until the last months of 1939, well after...