This came from another thread on TFL (but I can't remember which one now) - as I recall this is from Korea about 1952 or '53. Quite a mix of green and blue.
Air Force visor (from current AFI 36-2903, Dress and Personal Appearance of Air Force Personnel):
6.2.3.1. General Officer Service Cap. The visor will have three clouds and darts on each side and the insignia will not have a circle.
6.2.3.2. Field Grade Officer Service Cap. The visor will...
Navy cap description from current reg:
2. Visor Ornamentation: a. Male and female flag officers' cap visors are covered with dark blue cloth, embroidered with two rows of gold oak leaves and acorns. The hat band is encircled at the top by gold braid piping approximately 1/8 inch wide...
From the current Army uniform reg:
Service cap.
Visor and visor ornamentation. The visor is plain black leather or poromeric with a leather finish. The visor
ornamentation is as follows:
(1) General and field grade officers. The top of the visor is black cloth with two arcs of oak leaves in...
I agree MacArthur's "Philippine Field Marshal" hat in khaki was his idea. U.S. Army General Officers did not wear any visor or braid ornamentation on the OD/brown or khaki uniform caps until the 1950s when the modern green uniform was adopted. However, they did have "scrambled eggs" and oak...
Wearing my 1940s Stetson western (embroidered liner, bound edge, etc.) again, but decided to re-crease it over the weekend. I was never happy with the center dent (I think came to me that way?). The hat finally told me it wanted to be a cattleman. I do what I'm told.
Old crease.
My first leather police jacket was from Taylor's back in he early '80s and very similar to this one. They make great jackets and that's an excellent price. Someone should grab this up - good luck.
Texas Hatters “misty grey” western – it started life in the 1960s as Stetson 10X Rancher and TH in Lockhart revived it for me last year (clean, reblock, new ribbon, sweat, liner, etc.).
The movie was released in theatres in August of 1976; JW died in June of 1979.
Posted on imdb.com:
"Contrary to popular belief, John Wayne did not have cancer when he made this film. His entire left lung and several ribs had been removed in surgery on September 17, 1964, and in 1969 he was...
Apparently that's proper attire for formal day weddings and fishing.
Governor Collins holding up a bass at mansion on inauguration day - Tallahassee, Florida – 1955.
Florida Memory Collection - https://www.floridamemory.com/
Some other details from the movie (which is worth watching - if nothing else, to see Red Skelton in a somewhat dramatic role as a Navy pilot - shown at left in the first pic above):
The jacket (with sewn on nametag) in the first photo is the one Robert Taylor's character wears when flying to...
Cross-posting to see if anyone over here has ever seen a Navy flight jacket like this one?
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/real-usn-pre-ww-ii-flight-jacket.89570/
Watched the movie “Flight Command” (1940) over the weekend and expected to see lots of 37J1/A-1 jackets, but saw none. But the jacket the flyers wore was one I’d never seen before and wondered if it was an actual USN flight jacket or one created by costumers – it has a very wide knit waistband...
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