Original Item: Only One Available. This is a Pe World War Two era Mexican Military officer dress coat with tailor label and extensive custom embroidery on the interior lining. It is offered in very good condition.

Approximate Measurements:
Collar to shoulder: 9”
Shoulder to sleeve: 24”
Shoulder to shoulder: 18”
Chest width: 20”
Waist width: 19”
Hip width: 25”
Front length: 32"

Even before Mexico entered the war, it supplied vital raw materials to the United States. Mexico and the United States in November 1941 signed a general agreement that resolved most of their outstanding quarrels. The old problem of U.S. agrarian claims was settled, a reciprocal-trade treaty was outlined, and the Mexican peso was stabilized and supported to maintain a constant dollar ratio. The United States agreed to continue silver purchases at world prices and to provide long-term loans to buttress Mexico’s economy. Separate agreements were reached on military aid, primarily to professionalize the Mexican army and its small air force. To that end, the military sector was dropped from the official party, eliminating the army as a separate bloc in politics.

Mexico became an active belligerent in World War II in 1942 after Germany sank two of its tankers. The Mexican foreign secretary, Ezequiel Padilla, took the lead in urging other Latin American countries to support the Allies as well. A Mexican–North American joint defense committee planned cooperative operations to be carried out in case the Japanese attacked Mexico’s west coast. Former president Lázaro Cárdenas served on the committee and became minister of defense when that post was created in 1944. A small Mexican air unit operated with the United States in the Philippines. But Mexico’s major contribution to the war effort was the steady supply of raw materials for U.S. industry. It also contributed hundreds of thousands of temporary farmworkers (braceros) and railroad men under the Bracero Treaty, which was negotiated by the United States in 1942 to alleviate labour shortages occasioned by the military draft. (By the time the program was finally terminated in the 1960s, millions of Mexicans had participated.)