This snapshot captures a popular wartime custom: American servicemen transiting through Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, during the Korean War era often purchased elaborately embroidered souvenir jackets from local tailors. This example bears the embroidered nickname 'Tony,' the base name 'Atsugi,' a unit number, and a large dragon motif - a personalized keepsake typical of the thousands produced for US personnel passing through Japan en route to and from the Korean Peninsula between 1950 and 1953. Project: 218074