Jacket Owned and Worn by General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Description
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the Army’s World War II military uniform to be restricting and poorly suited for combat. Instead, he had a standard issue wool field jacket tailored to be “very short, very comfortable, and very natty looking.” The resulting “Eisenhower jacket” or “Ike jacket,” as it came to be
known, was standard issue to American troops after November 1944. This “Ike jacket” was worn by Eisenhower.
Citation
This primary source comes from the Collection DDE-1331: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Museum Collection.
National Archives Identifier: 7717661
Full Citation: Jacket Owned and Worn by General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Collection DDE-1331: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Museum Collection,. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/jacket-owned-and-worn-by-general-dwight-d-eisenhower/, June 6, 2026]
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