Bomber-jacket leather and our law

Yeah, the A-6s. Did you wear just the boots themselves, or were they
big enough to be worn over a pair of shoes?

Ah, that takes me back! In basic training I was issued a pair of
overshoes (galoshes, if you prefer) so large that when I walked they
never left the ground.

In the interest of the Company's rank in the climactic Speed March, we
wore the galoshes all day, every day.

Mine never left the ground, or more accurately: mud.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: Cub Driver
Date: 9/30/03 2:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: 15jinvk4e04p44ult8tiln4fielnhoefrk

Yeah, the A-6s. Did you wear just the boots themselves, or were they
big enough to be worn over a pair of shoes?

We wore those big sheepskin lined winter flight boots over regular boots. If
you didn't the boots would snap off when your chute opened and you would land
barefoot in the winter snow.




Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

(ArtKramr) wrote:

Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: Cub Driver
Date: 9/30/03 2:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: 15jinvk4e04p44ult8tiln4fielnhoefrk

Yeah, the A-6s. Did you wear just the boots themselves, or were they
big enough to be worn over a pair of shoes?

We wore those big sheepskin lined winter flight boots over regular boots. If
you didn't the boots would snap off when your chute opened and you would land
barefoot in the winter snow.

Arthur Kramer

Our 'winter flying boots' were fleece lined, leather topped with
a rubber 'foot part'. They were large enough to wear over boots
and were great in Canada's arctic in winter, where it gets cold
enough to freeze the balls off'n a brass bedstead.
--

-Gord.