North Vietnamese Air Force 1st Lt Shoulder Boards

NVA officers wore four pocket cotton twill tunics in the North. These tunics had thin loops on the shoulders for attaching shoulder boards. Some of these tunics made their way South as reported in ST66-24, the MACV Intelligence circular which reported on captured NVA material. The construction is typical war time with aluminum buttons. This pair is a well used set for a 1st Lt of the Air Force as they are piped in light blue. My guess is that these were from a Lt involved in integrating air defenses around NVA base camps. T5