Navy Uniform Jacket
PeriodCirca 1941 - 1945
Place MadeBrooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
MediumWool, cotton, brass, steel
Dimensions30 in. (76.2 cm)
SignedThe jacket is tagged inside the proper left side "Officers Uniform Shop / Naval Supply Depot / Brooklyn / New York," with an anchor emblem below.
ClassificationsMilitary Artifacts
Credit LineGift of Jack L. Schumann, 1947
Object number3183
DescriptionA man's navy dress uniform jacket in dark blue wool broadcloth, with a double breasted front closure fastened with brass Navy buttons, back vent, padded shoulders, notched lapels, and a full dark blue cotton lining. The sleeves are trimmed with three bands of gold bullion braid and a single five-pointed star above. Naval insignia colored bar pinned to upper proper left breast. Separate Naval shoulder boards of navy blue wool and gold bullion stars originally attached to jacket.NotesJohn Louis "Jack" Schumann was born in New York on 29 September 1913. He attended the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. He was in the Naval O.T.C., and received his commission as ensign in the Naval Reserved in 1936. He worked as an enginner. When the United States entered World War II, Schumann was called up for active duty and served in the Pacific. In 1943, he spent a year in Miami Florida attended a submarine chaser training center. In 1944 he returned to active duty and was an executive officer on a destroyer escort in the Pacific for the rest of the war. Schumann married Manasquan resident Helen "Dolly" Storms in 1939 and the couple had one son. After the war, Schumann returned to his career as engineer and eventually became director and president of Buell Engineering Company. Jack Schumann died on April 1, 2002.
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