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That looks like a cvc cold weather jacket. Maybe early version. Plenty of these to be found on-line.

Can't go wrong with a GW RW 27752.

The photo is from the Roger Freeman collection at the American Air Museum, Duxford. Here is a link to a search for McKennon; https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/media?fulltext=McKennon The jacket has been discussed before with the RW 27752 contract being thought most likely but...

Better but not perfect.

From the Headwind jacket description; "A.G Spalding & Bros. was contracted to build a small run of prototype jackets to beta test the pattern and details. " It is not a known or proven fact that Spalding produced this jacket. In years to come this will lead to misinformation and knowledge of...

This is a different contract to the Eastman mixed batch repro. This is a 1942/1943 contract. https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/b3-contract-list.21441/

Who is going to be the first one to ask Fivestar to make a repro of it?

Now that is what I call mixed batch. Note the construction of the back, suggesting making use of every last stock available.

And the zipper is a Kwik, which is nice.

Army Air Corps decal;

I have found where I was going wrong, there are two types of full grain leather both called full-grain, one is the whole skin and the other is mainly just the grain. As in this diagram; I was under the impression that there was just the whole width variant.

I guess I must have gotten different search results to you. Full grain leather is not split.

I would say that this article is wrong. As I understand it Full Grain is the full width of the skin, that is to say the skin is not split, which makes it tougher than the other types. In the Eastman manual, page 38, there is a cattle hide specification which lists the three types of leather...

Nothing unusual in this photo expect for the zipper; Zoom in on the zipper and an indentation can be seen at the top, which is typical of Conmar zippers. Expect that this type of Conmar is not listed in the Eastman manual nor can I recall seeing any other images of this style of zipper...

Free French leather aviator jacket in North Africa. link to full size image; https://catalog.archives.gov/id/325594627?objectPage=2 Downsized image to fit forum;