Nice 100% original 8th Army Group Patched summer shirt of a sergeant, a reasonable size and complete, in combat worn condition, with originally applied set of US Medic Collar Discs, which you can see have always been on this shirt. This unit is famous for its combat during the Luzon, Manilla Bay and Philipines campaign in the pacific during 1944 - 1945 , see information below. . It was certainly worn in the field, see photo's: - it has been used in the war, so wear is present on this shirt, but with a great patina. The shirt also has laundry numbers stamped in the bottom inner part of the shirt, so this may be researchable. Overall a great shirt. A very nice and 100% original summer shirt of the famous 8th Army Group that endured heavy combat in the fighting in the pacific! History of the 8th Army Group The unit first activated on 10 June 1944 in the United States, under the command of Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger. The Eighth Army took part in many of the amphibious landings in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II, eventually participating in no less than sixty of them. The first mission of the Eighth Army, in September 1944, was to take over from the U.S. Sixth Army in New Guinea, New Britain, the Admiralty Islands and on Morotai, in order to free up the Sixth Army to engage in the Philippines Campaign (1944–45). The Eighth Army again followed in the wake of the Sixth Army in December 1944, when it took over control of operations on Leyte Island on 26 December. In January, the Eighth Army entered combat on Luzon, landing the XI Corps on 29 January near San Antonio and the 11th Airborne Division on the other side of Manila Bay two days later. Combining with I Corps and XIV Corps of Sixth Army, the forces of Eighth Army next enveloped Manila in a great double-pincer movement. Eighth Army's final operation of the Pacific War was that of clearing out the southern Philippines of the Japanese Army, including on the major island of Mindanao, an effort that occupied the soldiers of the Eighth Army for the rest of the war.