Stand By - thanks for the great detailed response! You make many great points and I appreciate your input. And your example jackets are fantastic!
Getting no feedback previously, I got with Siggy here on TFL and have already headed in certain direction. Here's is the current plan: While...
My grandfather, Robert Kennedy, Nyack (NY) Police Department.
Formal portrait – Motorcycle Officer, 1920s.
Nyack’s first patrol car – about 1927.
Group photo – 1930 – Officer R.L. Kennedy, far right.
Doolittle was 45 when the U.S. entered WW-II. Born - 1896; Died - 1993. The photos are likely late 1920s.
http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/107225/general-james-harold-doolittle.aspx
I have two of them and like them very much. They seem to have a bigger crown that a CD and the brim is wider - to me they are more of a western/outdoors type of hat than the fedora-qualities of a Campdraft. As someone said in the Bushman thread "it's a lot of hat."
We’ve seen lots of WW-II pictures of GEN Jimmy Doolittle in his A-2. How about a few earlier pics of GEN Doolittle in his A-1 flying jacket?
Here he is with some other pilot.
This one does not look like leather when compared to other photos.
I have decided to put together a WW-II “tribute jacket” and was hoping for some advice/opinions. The jacket is a tribute to my mother’s first cousin, 2LT Millard C. Miller, Jr. He was a B-24 navigator whose plane was shot down over Germany. He was severely injured and was taken prisoner after...
Having moved many times there are still unpacked boxes that contain quite a few insignificant items (old tools, etc.) that connect me to my past, but as I was reading through the posts, this is what came to mind.
When I was little, my Mother had this bowl and always served me chili (and ice...
I came across something in a different thread, but thought it would be more appropriate to mention here in the A-1 thread. Today I was viewing some A-2 photos from a link on a different jacket thread (http://www.goodwearleather.com/photos/vintage_photos) and one of the jackets in a crew photo...
Those are some great photos. One of the jackets in a crew photo caught my eye - I put on my glasses and enlarged as big as could get it and I am still not sure, but it sure looks like the second guy from the right is wearing a jacket with buttons??
I would have guessed an A-1, but that looks...
Give these a try:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/ceitech2013/m.html?item=200961374063&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562
http://www.symbolarts.com/cart/challenge-coin-belt-buckle-two-tone.html
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