A Second War Period Canadian Operation Eskimo Sleeve Patch Auction purple velvet medal bed

purple velvet medal bed

hand engraved insignia and wings

1939-1945 -  Bronze

Front of visor is patent leather

A two-seater

A Second War Period Canadian Operation Eskimo Sleeve Patch Auction purple velvet medal bedWhite embroidery on an ultramarine blue wool base, black cloth reinforced backer, 73 mm, uniform worn, white has discoloured to a gray tone, lightly soiled on the left side of the igloo, better than very fine. Footnote: A military exercise named Exercise Eskimo was held in the winter of 1944 45 in Saskatchewan, to test existing methods of winter warfare by the Canadian Army and the United States Army Air Corps. The troops would arrive in Prince