Original British WWII Airborne Parachute Regiment Officer’s Private Purchase Battledress Jacket Made From American Lend-Lease Wool German Badges & Signs with some slight silvering and

with some slight silvering and thinning from normal hand wear

” says Joseph P

There is the name FRANS WIJNVOORD written onto the leather sweatband

complete BD71 switchboard set by Leich Electric

the relief inscription on nine lines "A" "SES" "COMPAGNONS" "DE GLOIRE" "SA DERNIÈRE" "PENSÉE" "STE HÉLÈNE" "5 MAI" "1821" (English: "TO HIS COMPANIONS IN GLORY HIS LAST THOUGHT ST HELENA 5 MAY 1821")

Original British WWII Airborne Parachute Regiment Officer’s Private Purchase Battledress Jacket Made From American Lend-Lease Wool German Badges & Signs with some slight silvering andOriginal Item: Only One Available. Now this is an amazing example of a British Battledress Ike Style jacket, constructed from wool sent from the United States from the Lend Lease program. Since April 1939, Britain had been fighting Germany on land, at sea, and in the air. The cost of these operations had nearly drained Britains reserves of currency and gold. Without those funds, Britain could no longer purchase the vital American made war supplies it