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Fantastic story, Spitfire. Thanks for sharing.
Spitfire said:Driving to Haderslev today - it's in Jutland - I went into a cafeteria on the way for a cup of coffe.
I was wearing my Aero Irvin, when an old gentleman sitting at the next table approached me.
"Isn't that a RAF Irvin jacket?"
I said yes, and he went on praising the quality and the shape it was still in.
When I told him, that it was new - he went on telling me, that he had owned one as a young man. A real one!!!
He got it - when he was 15 - from a RAF bombercrew, who bailed out over Jutland in 1943!!!
His father was in the resistance, and he had helped the airman to escape.
He had hid it at the attic till after the war. Not wanting to "upset the Germans".
He had used it a lot after the war, both when driving the tractor and his motorcycle. But it was all gone now.
He also told me, that it looked exactly like mine.
Brought back memories to him.
Fantastic story, Spitfire. Thanks for sharing.