United States. An US Army Amphibious Assault Tunic, c.1944

This jacket is fabricated from a fine brownish-green wool, incorporating button down epaulette straps on both shoulders, each of which is secured in place by a large brown plastic button at the neck end. Fed through the left epaulette strap and tied in the appropriate fashion is an aiguillette, the cord in red and green embroidery, braided, with a 70 mm long decorative silvered metal tip affixed to the end of the cord. Each of the collars are adorned with a collar disk, the right collar with a U.S. Army collar disk, the left collar with an Ordnance collar disk, both of which are in brass and are secured in place by dual push pins. There is an Army Amphibious Forces Engineer Special Brigade insignia in yellow and blue embroidery sewn in place on the right shoulder, while the left shoulder has a European Theater of Operations (ETO) Advanced Base insignia in red, white, dark yellow and blue embroidery sewn in place. Below each of the aforementioned shoulder insignia are Corporal rank chevrons in olive green and black embroidery. The front has two pockets, one on each breast which have decorative straps giving them a pleated-look with brown plastic buttons at the top, each pocket with a fold over flap and when lifted up, exposes a reinforced buttonhole on a tab, so when the buttons are fastened, they remain invisible to the eye, covered by the flaps. Inside the left breast pocket is a rogue epaulette strap that has been previously severed from another unidentified jacket. Sewn in place above the right breast pocket is an Honorable Discharge (Ruptured Duck) insignia in yellow and olive green embroidery, while appearing on the decorative strap on the left pocket is an Amphibious Engineers Seahorse insignia in red, white and blue embroidery. The front is completed by a vertical row of five large brown plastic buttons on the right side, facing an equal number of reinforced button holes on the left side, each of the button holes discreetly hidden under a full-length vertical flap, so when the buttons are fastened, they remain invisible to the eye, covered by the flap. There are straps in brownish-green wool that house magnetic gray metal length-adjustment buckles placed on both sides, the straps complemented by a strap on the left side at the front with a metal snap socket, and when the snap socket is connected to the snap stud on the right side, ensures a snug fit at the waist. The forearm on the left sleeve has four greenish-gold overseas bars (stripes, AKA "Hershey Bars") representing two years' overseas service sewn in place. The light brown threading securing both shoulder patche, both pairs of rank chevrons and the overseas bars is sewn in a zig-zag pattern and is prominently exposed. Both cuffs are of the button down variety, each with a single reinforced button hole and two brown plastic buttons. The interior is lined in a moss green cotton, with top entry pockets placed in the breasts behind both exterior pockets. The jacket is named in faded blue ink "BIZZIAN" above the service number "4130" on the body of the jacket just below the collar, with an embroidered size tag inscribed "38R" (38 Regular) along with a strap sewn in place in the collar to allow for hanging upon a hook. The jacket measures 480 mm across the shoulders x 580 mm in length. It exhibits mothing in two locations along the bottom edge of the right exterior breast pocket, which has caused two large holes to appear, but no other interruptions in the fabrics are evident, the various embroidered insignia maintaining their rich colors, with only sight curling present along the edges of the Honorable Discharge insignia, the jacket remaining relatively clean. Near extremely fine.