Field Jacket (other)
Field jacket can refer to any one of several US Military jackets: * M-1941 field jacket, worn from 1941 till 1943 * M-1943 field jacket, worn from 1943 till 1951 * M-1951 field jacket, worn from 1951 till 1965 * M-1965 field jacket The M-1965 field jacket (also known as M65, M-65 field jacket, and Coat, Cold Weather, Man's Field), named for the year it was introduced, is a popular field jacket initially designed for the United States Army under the ''MIL-C-43455'' standard ...

M-1941 Field Jacket
The M1941 field jacket, officially designated Jacket, Field, O.D. (for olive drab) and also unofficially known as O.D. cotton field jacket, Parsons jacket, or M-41, is a military jacket that was used by US Army soldiers, most famously during the beginning of World War II. In 1941 it started to be phased in as a replacement for the wool four-pocket service coat of World War I, but around 1943 it was replaced in turn by the improved M1943 model. Owing to wide adoption, the M1941 is usually recognized as a symbol of the World War II American G.I. The jacket was made in a light shade of olive drab called O.D. number 2. First field jacket Through World War I, soldiers in the United States Army wore a comfortable loose-fitting wool four-pocket field garment. By the outbreak of World War II, it had changed to a tight-fitting version suitable only for garrison wear.
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M-1951 Field Jacket
The M-1951 field jacket was a U.S. Army four pocket jacket made of 9-ounce wind resistant, water repellent treated cotton sateen cloth in OG-107, Olive Green Shade 107 (OG 107). It was redesignated as the M-1951 field coat in November 1956. Description The M-1951 field jacket was based on the U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform, M-1943 field jacket. The M-1951 was given snap fasteners instead of buttons and an aluminium zipper. Earlier issue M-1951s had larger, brown buttons like on the M-1943, and later jackets had smaller brown, then green buttons as used on the M-1965 field jacket and later OG-107 fatigues. Unlike the later M-1965 that replaced it, the M-1951 had button cuffs, a pointed collar and had a separate hood that buttoned on to the collar (the latter of which could also be fit to the m-65). It also added a second drawstring to the bottom hem, and added holes to allow adjustment of the waist drawstring from the outside of the jacket, a feature which was later removed in the M-1965 ...
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