The uniform is wrinkled and dirty. I was afraid that if I washed or dry cleaned the uniform that it was cause further damage considering the small moth holes in the wool. The combat patch from the 4th Armored Division but the insignia on the cover is from the 15th Cavalry Regiment. Both served in WW2 and in similar areas and engagements.
I think the soldier may have been transferred from one unit to the other. The 4th Armored Division landed at Utah Beach on July 13, 1944, a month after the D-DAY invasion (June 6, 1944) of the French Normandy coast. Within weeks, the "Breakthrough" ...