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  1. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    From photos of vintage parkas it's clear the liner isn't very thick, so I believe you when you say it's not overly warm.
  2. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    good photos of some supposedly vintage parkas here: https://lammyman.co.uk/collections/all/m51-parka https://lammyman.co.uk/collections/all/m65-parka
  3. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    useful info & photos in the link below (French language site), definitely worth a look https://usmc-collectors.pagesperso-orange.fr/fichiers listes et divers/korea catalog 11.htm
  4. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    Do you have the quilted insulated liner in yours?
  5. Doctor Damage

    Face Masks And other DIY projects

    a guide to making masks: https://buttoncounter.com/2018/01/14/facemask-a-picture-tutorial/ of course all the "experts" on the interweb are saying this sort of thing is useless, and for clinical/medical situations they're right, but for going out in public area where close contact is relatively...
  7. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    I already posted this image above but it's worth a close look. Edit: I've add the photo below which I saw today. From the info in a book I have on the Korean War, these were the "World War II" parka, which had a pile lined hood/collar and big external cargo pockets on the skirts.
  8. Doctor Damage

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    thanks, I hadn't looked back... I don't have a database, I'm just cobbling together bits of data which I'm good at, I'll have to hunt the interweb to see if someone has put in the legwork on this "I intensely dislike anomalies" haha
  9. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    another data point: Fritz helmet (in the bottom right strapped to the top of a backpack)
  10. Doctor Damage

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

  11. Doctor Damage

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    What's the tag size?
  13. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    here's an intriguing photo... these soldiers are clearly wearing these types of parkas (note the fishtail on the soldier at far left) or variants, yet the Hummer in the background indicates it's a relatively recent photo... did the US military use old parkas into the 1980s?
  14. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

  15. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    apparently there were several versions of these parkas: 1948, 1950, 1951, and 1965 anyways, here's some photos from the Korean War
  16. Doctor Damage

    MA-1 Flight jacket

  17. Doctor Damage

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    Are you sure there's an I spec? It seems like they might skip I since it could be misinterpreted as numeral 1 or lowercase L.
  19. Doctor Damage

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

  20. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    informative thread here: https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3467-usmc-m-1951-cold-weather-uniforms/
  21. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    US military winter uniforms, 1951
  22. Doctor Damage

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    The L2B jackets were made with contracts up to J, which was dated 1979. Here's what I've been able to gather from a couple books and photos and whatnot: The contracts up to E had shoulder straps and pocket flaps (and that waistband tab). The F, G, H contracts deleted the shoulder straps and...
  23. Doctor Damage

    M-51 Fishtail Parka and such

    The original M-51 parkas date from an era from which little or no records survive, much like with nylon flight jackets. Most of what we know has been reconstructed by collectors, etc.

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