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Post by researcher62 on Feb 17, 2011 18:30:47 GMT -5
Wondering if anyone can help me with this question. Can't seem to find the answer anywhere. After WWII, many discharged black soldiers returned from service and continued to wear their uniforms as civilians, especially in the South. I am doing research about a soldier who did this in 1949, and I'm trying to find out what the U.S. Army regulations were regarding this. I've been told the Army allowed soldiers to continue to wear the uniforms, but only for a certain amount of time, and I'm trying to find out if this is true and if so, what that time period was.
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Post by frank44 on Jun 12, 2011 14:20:29 GMT -5
A cloth "ruptured duck" patch was issued to be sewn onto the lapel of a discharged soldier's Ike jacket. I remember a corporal who came back from Korea in my home town, and wore his uniform (with ruptured duck and ribbons) for quite a while. He was a local boy, small town, so nobody said anything about it. I don't know what the regs were, but if you served overseas, the Army continued to send you pay for 2 months ($300 mustering out pay). And some guys were retired for medical reasons, and wee allowed to go home on "terminal leave" until their retirement was processed. I was in this status for 2 or 3 weeks, and could legally wear my uniform. Parts of the uniform continued to be worn by varous vets in college. HBT trousers with civilian shirts, khaki shirts (with patch and stripes) and jeans, boots. There were a lot of guys on the GI bill and it was a kind of casual satus/ solidarity thing. We were all older than most students, so nobody made an issue of this. But the complete uniform? Never saw his on campus.
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