Brigadier General Chester deGavre's lost Corp of Cadets jacket

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A woman finds an unusual article of clothing, while helping clean up after Hurricane Sandy

Gugger had stumbled across an 80-year-old tunic owned by a 1933 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a World War II hero described in his West Point yearbook as a soldier with a "heart like a stormy sea."

Before his death in 1993 at age 85, Chester deGavre was a Retired Army brigadier general, a pioneering paratrooper and chief of staff for the 1944 airborne invasion of southern France. He was one of the first Army officers to take parachute training at the start of World War II, joining the Airborne Command at Fort Bragg, N.C. The Newark, N.J., native improved techniques and standardized equipment for the airborne forces as a parachute-training officer and chief of test and development. His decorations included a Silver Star from the Korean War and the Legion of Merit with three oak-leaf clusters.

http://news.yahoo.com/lost-military-jacket-found-post-sandy-nj-beach-103848150.html

 

[ATotalNoob]

What's interesting to me is that we haven't heard of anyone else claiming it as a lost part of a collection, though it was said to be well-cared for. What a find.