Original U.S. Navy WWII WAVES Named Officer Service Cap with Photograph Japanese Army but overall a very eye

but overall a very eye pleasing cap in both exterior condition and classic shape

This is a wonderful condition A-2 jacket that features with a fantastic hand painted large leather  527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron circular patch to left chest and shows a black bird thrown a yellow bomb down over his head

Serial # 45475 indicates production in 1875

Airborne Division in France

Four hundred twenty-nine crew members died

Original U.S. Navy WWII WAVES Named Officer Service Cap with Photograph Japanese Army but overall a very eyeOriginal Item: One of a kind. The United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as the WAVES (for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), was the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. It was established on July 21, 1942 by the U. S. Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 30. This authorized the U. S. Navy to accept women into the Naval Reserve as commissioned