Would I be correct in thinking this was a Jump Smock Eagle?
Best regards, Simon
Not really. It is a standard HBT eagle that is used on the green HBT tunic, a few Field Division smocks, and only extremely rarely on the occasional FJ jump smock.
Sergey, that is one of the 3 smocks I have seen with that eagle. This one is a recent discovery. That same eagle (but with a straight line stitch) was also found on a Ground Division jacket. John had that one, while I had one of the smocks.
I found 3 loose eagles like that, but all (I think one was trimmed off) had the straight line stitch, as encountered on the GD jacket
IMO, it was a late war manufacturing thing to save time and effort trimming the eagle. We have seen these olive eagles on earlier smocks.
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