Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: (Michael)
Date: 9/15/03 9:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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(ArtKramr) wrote in message
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Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: "Tex Houston" 777
Date: 9/12/03 6:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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"Mike Yared" wrote in message
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I'm around the USAF a lot and I don't remember any such item as a brown
fur-collared bomber jacket as current issue. A-2 aircrew jacket maybe but



If you go to my website and click on "After Koblenz" I am wearing a fur
collared flight jacket, but I don't recall the designation. It sure wasn't
an A-2. The shot was made in 1944 at Florennes Belgium after the Koblenz
mission.

You're wearing a B-10, probably my favorite flight jacket.
Standardized in July '43, arrived in the ETO in March '44 and were
used through the end of the war. No leather in it though... cotton
shell with an alpaca lining. Much warmer than an A-2 (or a B-3 if you
wear an F-3 suit under B-10) and much easier to mass produce.

~Michael


Yeah it was a nice warm jacket. Not as jazzy as my A-2 but a hell of a lot
warmer. And now that you mention B-10 it rings a bell. Thanks.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer