US WWII USMC Marine Enlisted Dress Coat, 28th Rgt. Iwo Jima, 23 February 1945
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $550.00

Original era manufacture. Regulation pattern coat purchased in May of 1943 by the then Private T.E.Rheineck USMC. The coat is very clean, no moth issues with a tailor's label in the lining. When we purchased the coat it was without collar emblems, we have added a proper pair of P1930 enlisted emblems to complete the coat. Promoted to Corporal, T.E. Rheineck found himself serving in Company H, 3rd Battalion, 28th Marine Rgt., United States Marines. On the 19th of February 1945 his regiment landed on the shores of Iwo Jima, tasked with the securing of Mount Suribachi. Official records note that Corporal Rheineck was killed in action on February 23rd 1945, the day that the 2nd BN, 28th Marines raised the American Flag on the top of the heavily contested mountain. He was 20 years old. "The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years", Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, eyewitness to the flag raising. We have done some basic research on Ancestry regarding Corporal Rheineck's WWII service and will include those pages with the coat. Size about a 38 Long.