While sorting papers into my own archives I have found my old Officers Folder containing letters from Gen James ‘Jim Slim’ M. Gavin, CO 82nd A/B Division, Gen William M. “Bud’ Miley, CO 17th A/B Division, Gen William T. Ryder, CO 1st American Parachute Test Platoon, Gen William P. Yarborough, CO 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Italy 1943-1944, Gen George M. Jones, CO 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment USMC, Gen Matthew B. Ridgway, CO XVIII Corps Airborne, M. Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of American, Mrs Nancy Reagan, 1st Lady, as well as many other letters from American friends like Gerry Devlin and Charles B. McDonald.
The first letter I am using is the one that retrace the history of the US World War Two Paratrooper Uniforms M-1940 Balloon Cloth, M-1941 Herringbone Twill Overall, M-1941 Jump Jacket and Trouser, M-1942 Improved Jump Jacket and Trouser and finally the Paratrooper Uniform s Olive Drab or Tiger Stripes as used in Vietnam.
May
17
2009
