Can anyone identify this ‘G-1,’ please?

[robrinay]

A mate has just bought this jacket but the label is missing. The Waldes zipper looks like a replacement as do the cuffs. Interestingly it has a stencilled USN under the collar and a perforated USN on the wind flap.

 

[thor]

Cool jacket! I know that some M-422a jackets were issued even after WWII and saw service in the Korean War. These jackets would have both the collar stencil and an added USN windflap perforation. I don’t think the manufacturers did this, I believe it was done thru the Navy supply system where WWII surplus jackets were re-issued post war.
I’ve seen a couple of these jackets over the years. The perforations were smaller than usual and located near the bottom of the wind flap, consistent with it being a Navy “in-house” job.

 

[thor]

Additionally I believe some late 1940’s jackets, the first batch of 55-J-14’ s, have both a stencil and a windflap perforation as standard markings (from the manufacturer) before the Navy dropped the collar stencil completely.

 

[robrinay]

Thanks Thor I’ll let him know
Cheers
Rob