The Ryukyus patch was hand sewn so as to not go into the liner. When it was re raised it now has it's full three battalions back on The Rock The 29th Inf like the rest of the infantry regiments in the summer of 1950 they only had two of their battalion active, in the case of the 29th Infantry, it's 1st and 3rd Battalions and they were sent to Okinawa as a security force to guard the big air bases of the Strategic Air Command. The 29th Infantry is officially mentioned everywhere and forever as a Regimental Combat Team, but from what I've been stsrting to see over the years is at that time it dosen't seem to have been a Regimental Combat Team, Regimental Combat Teams have a Field Artillery Battalion and an Engineer Company assigned to it, we've never seen mention of a FA Bn or an Eng Co assigned to it, whether in Okinawa or in Korea, just the infantry regiment itself, maybe it became an RCT after it was re raised? Jacket will date up to October 1951 after that the Collar discs as worn on the Lower Lapels are done away with., the four discs look Japanese made. That's one unique IKE Jacket, worn in 1951 I'm thinking after being sent over in July 1950, as the date in the jacket is and was probably worn by a new man, a private, (thus the lake of any ribbons etc et)c when the unit was reformed in Okinawa after the original unit was destroyed and it's survivors reassigned to the 25th Infantry Division with a few going to the equally shattered 24th Infantry Division.
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