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This dress shirt features an exceptional, legible Post Tailors tag from Randolph Field, TX dated October 12, 1942, explicitly customized to "LT. C.F. ENLOE" during his flight surgeon training.
- Distinguished Flight Surgeon History: Dr. Cortez F. Enloe Jr. was one of the most decorated medical officers in the American Armed Forces during WWII, earning 13 decorations across the Army, Air Force, and Navy.
- Combat & High-Level Operations: Flew 39 combat missions in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater and served as the direct medical advisor to Admiral Louis Mountbatten.
- Post-War Significance: Served as a key interrogator of Nazi medical scientists for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey at the close of the war.
- Pop-Culture Connection: His dramatic exploits in Burma inspired the character "Doc" in Milton Caniff's famous WWII comic strip Terry and the Pirates.
