90TH INFANTRY DIVISION UNIFORM WITH NUREMBERG TRIALS PATCH

Army olive drab wool uniform shirt with de-Nazified Nuremberg Trials patch, U.S. Army 90th Infantry Division shoulder patch, “MP” military police armband, and Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign ribbon bar with four service stars.

A compelling uniform from a soldier who served both with the 90th Infantry Division during the Second World War and at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in the spring of 1946. The shirt combines wartime service insignia with the highly desirable Nuremberg Trials patch, notably de-Nazified. 

The precision of the Nazi symbol's removal indicates clear intention; the serviceman strongly objected to wearing the insignia of his battlefield foes in any capacity and removed the symbol himself.

The insignia of the 90th Infantry Division, a superimposed “T” on an “O,” referred to Texas and Oklahoma, the states from which the division was originally drawn in the First World War. Known as the “Tough ’Ombres,” the division landed in Normandy, fought across Northern France, and went on to see hard service in the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe, including major actions at Metz and during the Battle of the Bulge. The addition of the military police armband and Nuremberg insignia places the present uniform within the occupation period that followed Allied victory, when selected personnel participated in securing and administering the tribunal proceedings against leading figures of the Nazi regime.

A fine and display-worthy artifact from the most important military tribunal of the twentieth century.

[World War II, WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Allied, Axis, George S. Patton, Air Force] [Militaria, Accouterment, Equipment, Uniforms]

Some loss of silver bullion to patch.