VIET-NAM JACKET / CAM-RANH Colour:110 SAXE attached to the neck hook

attached to the neck hook of the TYPE A-2 or on a necklace

This cotton sateen was the ideal cloth for the temperate climate in the European theatre of war and was bolstered by windproof alpaca lining

Goodyear Welt

both pieces belonging to the wartime movement into cotton HBT utility uniforms

and it performed its first demonstration in May 1953 at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona

VIET-NAM JACKET / CAM-RANH Colour:110 SAXE attached to the neck hookThe Souvenir jacket, or 'sukajan,' was first embroidered by the Japanese for American soldiers during the occupation and was initially sold in street stalls and later at the Post Exchanges of military bases. The Yokosuka Navy Yard, from where the Sukajan name is derived, was one of the main arsenals of the Imperial Japanese Navy leading up to World War II. After the war, the base came to be occupied by US forces. Early Sukajan jackets were typically