US Navy Pre-War Peacoat - Good Condition - Size 40 This featured the 'green dominant'

This featured the 'green dominant' pattern (note the colour contrast against the brown dominant background) that wasn't wholly suited to use in Vietnam

Navigators etc

shorter than the typical peacoat

Pit to pit 23

Tagged a medium

US Navy Pre-War Peacoat - Good Condition - Size 40 This featured the 'green dominant'I love a good deck jacket, and whilst the blue jungle cloth jacket get most of the attention, it's the humble peacoat that really started it all. The word peacoat stems from the Dutch word 'pije', which means a coat made of thick wool, and and likely comes from the early 18th century. But it was the British and the heyday of the Royal Navy which really made the peacoat synonymous with the sea. The US Navy, in the very late 1800s would take inspiration