Beautiful WW2 US Army Uniform Grouping – Served in North Africa / Operation Torch – Italy – Militair uniform – Ike Jacket, Wool Pants, Shirt, Trousers, trouser belt – all named + research – NO RESERVE! – 1943

Offered for auction is an amazing Uniform & dog tag grouping to T/5 Evan C Follis, who enlisted in 1942, and was born in 1910. He served with the US North African (and meditarranean / Italy) theatre army. The Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (MTOUSA), originally called the North African Theater of Operations, United States Army (NATOUSA), was a military formation of the United States Army that supervised all U.S. Army forces which fought in North Africa and Italy during World War II. United States Army operations in the theater began with Operation Torch, when Allied forces landed on the beaches of northwest Africa on 8 November 1942, and concluded in the Italian Alps some 31 months later, with the German surrender in Italy on 2 May 1945. For administrative purposes, U.S. components were responsible to Headquarters North African Theater of Operations, United States Army (NATOUSA), which was created 14 February 1943. NATOUSA was redesignated Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (MTOUSA), on 26 October 1944. He was certainly a veteran of these campaigns, given his THREE campaign stars on the European Campaign medal bar that is on the ike jacket. There are papers of him, and... lees verder bij Catawiki