Bomber-jacket leather and our law

Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: (Michael)
Date: 9/23/03 7:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: e9a6fbc9.0309231826.6513df5

Thank you for taking the time to discuss this stuff with me. I really
appreciate it.

My pleasure. Ask away. Oh and I forgot to mention the big fat heavy sheepskin
flying boots that we wore all that winter.I was never so cold in my life before
or since.

If I could bother you with one other question which
I've always wonder about (but nothing is ever written)... what was
life like between missions? i.e. What responsibilities would aircrew
have between missions? What did they do to fill up the day when they
weren't flying?

Thanks,

~Michael

Michael go to my website and read a story called " THE RAIN AT PONTOISE" to get
an idea what it was like when we weren't flying.



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

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Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: (Michael)
Date: 9/23/03 7:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: e9a6fbc9.0309231826.6513df5

Thank you for taking the time to discuss this stuff with me. I really
appreciate it.

My pleasure. Ask away. Oh and I forgot to mention the big fat heavy sheepskin
flying boots that we wore all that winter.

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

Michael go to my website and read a story called " THE RAIN AT
PONTOISE" to get
an idea what it was like when we weren't flying.

So on non-flying days (rain or shine) aircrews were pretty much left
to find whatever to occupy their time?

Thanks,

~Michael

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
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

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
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

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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

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.