Original flying jackets and their story

[Lord Flashheart]

Splinters new old Irvin got me thinking about original jackets and their story. Have many of you followed through maybe a name and service number written in one of your finds and found a great story and if so, how about sharing it? Photos would be much appreciated too.

Garry

 

[rocketeer]

There is a website almost devoted to A2s, not sure of the full name, something like 'Vintage WWII Leather Jackets'.
I have an original jacket with some info but I don't follow the forum as they won't let me on it as I don't have a proper email I originally got from my broadband supplier(I won't go into why).
Unless someone has had their items for years and backed up with paperwork and photo's, these days there are those whom can cobble up a history with a few genuine documents just to get a better price for their stuff, and eBay is not the only place this can happen.
Here is mine with a photo a mate grabbed from the net. I have had it thirty five years and is still roughly as I got it. The photo is based on the patch as even this has been sewed over a removed name tag which I believe did happen.
The aircraft is a 15th AAF B24 but I have lost the info giving the crew names and squadron number. The font for the '7' is the same on the plane as is on the jacket patch.
I do believe the jacket belonged to an enlisted man rather than an officer due to the inconsistencies of the dice numbering, that is the opposites should add up to seven, here it is adjacent sides. Surely an officer would not make that mistake.
Thats all I really know as I am not into contract numbers and all that stuff

 

[BobJ]

Wouldn't it be a trip if that jackets was being worn by one of the guys in those photos?

That sure is a strange looking plane.

 

[rocketeer]

Wouldn't it be a trip if that jackets was being worn by one of the guys in those photos?

That sure is a strange looking plane.

It sure would. The stitching is consistent to all the patches as if done by the same person and looks very old, and looked old when I obtained ithe jacket. The 15th patch originally sewn fell off and was lost during my ownership so I replaced it with my own reproduction cut from a (UK) Ford Zephyr leather car seat.
Shark teeth were put on many aircraft even before the Flying Tigers P40s.
Not many replies here, maybe they all frequent that other forum.
Cheers, J.