On 19 Sep 2003 08:11:15 -0700, (Michael) wrote:

and AN-J-4 in '42. Whether or not any of the AAC guys brought along
B-3s, I don't know. I've never seen a photo of anyone wearing one.

Nevertheless, of 99 AVG pilots, maybe 40 were from the Army Air Corps,
and almost all of them brought their flight jackets with them.

Have you got a copy of R T Smith's Tale of a Tiger? Duke Hedman I
believe was an army pilot; he's shown wearing a flight jacket on p.
166.

Jim Cross p. 131

Oley Olson is wearing a shearling jacket p. 180. But he was a squadron
leader and would have qualified for a new jacket! Evidently a bunch of
jackets came in, because there's a portrait of the 3rd Sq ground crew
on p. 178 and most of the men are wearing those shearling-line
jackets. They aren't shown in any of the early photographs.

Here's an interesting one: p. 339. Standing on left is Erik Shilling,
late of this newsgroup, wearing a jacket that is distinctly different
from the others. Perhaps it is brown? It appears to have no fuzzy
collar. Standing beside him is Oley Olson (who may just possibly have
his hands in his pants pocket, Art wearing a black? jacket with a
moulton? collar, which is what most of the others are wearing. Olson
and Shilling are both army pilots. Seated left to right are R T Smith,
army, same jacket as Olson; Jernstedt, marines, a cloth jacket?; then
Prescott, Laughlin, and Reed, all wearing the Olson-type jacket.

Anyone got this book & care to comment?

all the best -- Dan Ford
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