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Army jacket
Date: between 1943 and 1946
U.S. Army Eisenhower-style jacket. Worn by Private First Class John Lee Meyer, Jr. Meyer, a native of Phillipsburg, Kansas, was drafted into the Army in 1943. He saw heavy combat in Germany as part of the 1st Infantry Division, 18th Regiment, Company F, eventually receiving both the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. After the war, Meyer was reassigned to the 1st Division, Chief of Council, Presentation Department in Nuremberg. His new duties included building the architectural model for the redesigned courtroom at the Palace of Justice in preparation for the Nuremberg Trials.
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Military uniform jacket
Creator: Samuel W. Owen
Date: between 1872 and 1879
Woolen dress military jacket, as prescribed by U.S. Army regulations from 1872 to 1879. Worn by Colonel James Oakes of the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. Oakes was the commanding officer at Fort Hays in the mid-1870s. He was an 1846 graduate of West Point, a class noted for its high number of Civil War generals (Oakes was a Brevet Brigadier General during the war). He also served in Kansas at Fort Leavenworth prior to Fort Hays. Oakes retired from active service in 1879, and died in 1910. The coat has a tailor's tag for Samuel W. Owen, an English immigrant who maintained a Washington, D.C., shop specializing in military uniforms.
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