I read Osprey's US Marines since 1945 and saw that the postwar service uniform for the Marines were near copies of Australian ones, and looked almost like the Eisenhower-type uniform, in tan. Any more details, such as how pockets/straps/insignia were?

Umm, not really. During the war, after Guadalcanal, Marines on Australia wore a locally procured "Ike" type jacket. It was brown wool, and had the 1st Mar Div patch on both shoulders contrary to orders.

Khaki Tropicals did have a variation of the service coat which deleted the two lower pockets but that was discontinued before the war. Forest green Ike style coats were authorized later in the war. At first, some were made from the forest green service coat.

A trop ike jacket was, to my knowledge, never in the official inventory.

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On page 35 of the book it shows a black and white photograph of an enlisted Marine with what looks similar to an Ike jacket in a light shade. Wonder what that is then?

Best guess would be a tropical service coat cut short for a specific duty station in a hot climate.

The trops were phased out in 1972 or so, but clung on in places like MCAS Yuma Az, 29 Palms, and even MCRD San Diego until the late 70's. Heck I still have my tropical garrison cover stored away somewhere, and I was at Yuma in '77.

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I did some digging and found that:

#1. Khaki Trop "Ike" jackets did exist.
#2. They were seldom worn stateside. Mainly Japan and the far East.
#3. they were officially recognized, to some extent, but don't get caught wearing the thing at say Camp Pendleton or Camp LeJeune unless your name was Puller, or Vandegrift.

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Thanks for the heads up. So Osprey dropped the ball on this one by not explaining this. Though I wonder if the got worn in Korea?

Yes, they were worn in Korea.

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