Was there an A-9 Flight Jacket?

[CBI]

Any legitimacy behind these claims in re an A-9 jacket? Don't know of any myself. No references anywhere that I have found...............Is this something that should go with A-9 flight pants?

I think this has been asked about before.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-US-Army-Ai ... SwrklVaoX9

 

[watchmanjimg]

I'm not terribly versed in WW2 cloth flying gear, but I think the "A" prefix was exclusive to trousers by the time these items were produced. Pretty sure the nomenclature of the corresponding parkas began with a "B," as did the intermediate jackets like the B-10 and B-15.

 

[6148th T.C.Squadron]

A couple are shown in the American Flight Jacket book,

 

[6148th T.C.Squadron]

S#it for that price why not. I have had two of the B-10's from this guy, can't beat them for the price.

 

[CBI]

yes, I guess I did see the pics in the American Flight Jackets book but it looks like the B-10 on the page next to it (both in a darker green). The A-9 has stitched eps but I was thinking someone might have field mod'ed it that way. I sure wish there was a pic of a label. Yes, a great price. Maybe we can look at it as a dark green B-10 (as some seemed to have existed) and call it a day.

 

[watchmanjimg]

I realize the following cannot be regarded as exhaustive, but various "B"-series jackets and parkas are shown along with the A-9 trousers:

http://www.303rdbg.com/uniforms-gear4.html

 

[CBI]

any more ideas anyone? if this forum group doesn't know, I guess no one else will??????

 

[watchmanjimg]

any more ideas anyone? if this forum group doesn't know, I guess no one else will??????

Are you saying that a book actually calls the jacket an A-9?

 

[CBI]

there is reference to an A-9 jacket on page 38 of Maguire's "American Flight Jackets" book. 2 photos of the same jacket, a very dark green B-10 looking jacket. Photo captions:

"Detail showing the very dark OD cotton material and stitched on epaulet of the type A-9 jacket"

and

"The AAF issue type A-9 jacket was apparently a predecessor of the B-10 jacket but little is known about it"

 

[a2jacketpatches]

Picture says a thousand words but in this case a simple snapshot of the label with just a few words would beat it. I hear there's a lot of flaws in these books and this could be one of them. To omit the label with such little known of the jacket is odd IMO.

 

[CBI]

could very well be a civi jacket or just a darker B-10 with the field mod eps. I know any sort of OD clothing item in WW2 saw many shade variations. Sometimes, quite significant.

 

[watchmanjimg]

Picture says a thousand words but in this case a simple snapshot of the label with just a few words would beat it. I hear there's a lot of flaws in these books and this could be one of them. To omit the label with such little known of the jacket is odd IMO.

I agree. I'm beginning to wonder if the sole inspiration for the repro was the example in the Maguire book. Here's a link to what is stated as a repro A-9 but whose label actually reads . . . B-10:

http://centrohistoricooverlord.com.br/s ... -wwii-a-9/

I must say that I find the absence of any pictures of the purported A-9's label highly suspect as this would be the most conclusive proof of its existence as such.

 

[Peter Graham]

Maguire's books are full of flaws. I don't believe it for a minute.