Please help me identify the uniform my grandfather is wearing in this photo. Family lore is that it has no insignias because he wore it for a portrait when he received word of his long awaited commission. The photo was taken shortly before he departed from the east coast to the west coast. Either shortly before or shortly after arriving, Hiroshima was bombed. As a result all commissions and enlistments were halted. My guess is that his preference would have been for...

Just the slightest bit of patch viewable on the shoulder in your pictures looks like it may be a Army Air Corps uniform without any rank. But as you said he may have wore it for a portrait when he received word of his long awaited commission. Maybe he was not allowed to pin on Officer rank until his official promotion so this is why he did not have his rank on it yet.

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