OK, I've bought a WWII (I assume) jacket that is like the paratroopers jacket. But this one has one real button on each of the pockets instead of the double snaps on the pockets, like the ParaT jackets have. Has those same buttons all the way down the front covering a zipper. Also it's different from those jackets in that the slanted chest pockets on this one does not have angeled flaps but rather they have sort of rounded pointy flaps, and the pockets themselves aren't as 3-dimentional as the paratrooper jackets. My jacket has buttoned cuffs like a shirt but with big buttons. Also has a draw string at the waist area and at the very bottom area. It's called a "utility jacket" on the label. Now, honestly when I think of a paratrooper's jacket I'm thinking of only the ones used by the 101st (from all the movies, etc.) but did other units use different ones? Were there maybe an earlier version of the paratrooper jacket that used what looks like fairly good sized bakelite buttons? Anyone here got any info or want to take a stab at what this jacket actually is?
Doug C
Doug C