5th AAF WW2 patch

[Flightengineer]

Nice Dimitry!

'Straya mate! Had to be quality

Thanks friends.
Patch has come a long and winding path to me Initially, my friend from Ohio bought it for me from this seller (who turned out to be a lady). She accidentally sent it to her another customer who bought other item from she (oh...these women ).
My friend and I crossed fingers waiting for the patch to return to the seller and will be sent again. At this time, my other friend from Chicago was going to fly to Moscow last sunday and we asked the seller to send a patch to his address .... was done but lady indicated the bit wrong address on letter.
Thanks to the neighbors of Alex - my Chicago's friend - they received it and gave it to my friend right at the moment when he was start to go to the airport...a couple of minutes more and it would be late ....and would have to send it to me by mail.
Yesterday I met Alex at the airport and received a patch

Today morning I took my A2 to my tailor and right now I am sitting and waiting for it to be sewn on.

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[ausreenactor]

Holy crap. What a tale of woe. As long as you are happy with it.

 

[Jorgeenriqueaguilera]

Such a beauty!

 

[Flightengineer]

I'm more than satisfied with the result

 

[Bombing IP]

Looks great Dimitry set's the jacket off ,always been a lover of less is more .No need to have a lot of patches and paintings .

Jeff

 

[Flightengineer]

Looks great Dimitry set's the jacket off ,always been a lover of less is more .No need to have a lot of patches and paintings .

Jeff

Thanks,Jeff.I'll not add any more patches. But this one is exactly what I wanted to have and what exactly was need my jacket to have a bit historical touch.

 

[ausreenactor]

It looks good on your arm. Not as good as a Lithuanian Aerobatic Goddess; however, the stitch work is stellar.

 

[Smithy]

Looks awesome Dmitry, love it, nice one!

I too think the 5th badge is the nicest looking.

 

[ausreenactor]

13th AAF and Far East Air Force for me...

Aussie variations of the FEAF are pretty common on eBay too.

 

[Flightengineer]

Looks awesome Dmitry, love it, nice one!

I too think the 5th badge is the nicest looking.

оh yeah

 

[B-Man2]

Twins ...... Nice !!

 

[Flightengineer]

Continuation of the history of my WW2 Australian patch.
Today I moved this beautiful patch to my jacket of the first league - Platon Dubow. I must say that the location of the epaulettes on my ELC Star Sportswear and Platon Dubow is different, on Dubow contract they are slightly moved forward. So the positioning of the number 5 on this patch took some time to placed correct when the hand is down it didn't look displaced from the vertical axis. If on Star the top bar of the number 5 was exactly parallel to the side line of the epaulette and perpendicular to the side seam of the sleeve , then on Dubow I had to align it along the shoulder seam and the vertical seam of the sleeves.
It's funny but my seamstress and I changed patch positions several times until we achieved, in my opinion, an ideal angle.
I'm sure the souls of WW2 pilots would laughed at this perfectionism. For I've seen in the Conway's books and in the lot photos of the originals, including Jorge's wonderful jacket, completely different positions and corners of these patches.
However, it was difficult not to succumb to the temptation and not to do everything beautifully, cause I didn't have to rush to a combat mission, unlike these guys.
My Star in return received a wonderful 8AAF shoulder repro patch embroidered on felt, recently received from Steve from UK.
If anyone is interested, I can add pics bit later.

 

[B-Man2]

Continuation of the history of my WW2 Australian patch.
Today I moved this beautiful patch to my jacket of the first league - Platon Dubow. I must say that the location of the epaulettes on my ELC Star Sportswear and Platon Dubow is different, on Dubow contract they are slightly moved forward. So the positioning of the number 5 on this patch took some time to placed correct when the hand is down it didn't look displaced from the vertical axis. If on Star the top bar of the number 5 was exactly parallel to the side line of the epaulette and perpendicular to the side seam of the sleeve , then on Dubow I had to align it along the shoulder seam and the vertical seam of the sleeves.
It's funny but my seamstress and I changed patch positions several times until we achieved, in my opinion, an ideal angle.
I'm sure the souls of WW2 pilots would laughed at this perfectionism. For I've seen in the Conway's books and in the lot photos of the originals, including Jorge's wonderful jacket, completely different positions and corners of these patches.
However, it was difficult not to succumb to the temptation and not to do everything beautifully, cause I didn't have to rush to a combat mission, unlike these guys.
My Star in return received a wonderful 8AAF shoulder repro patch embroidered on felt, recently received from Steve from UK.
If anyone is interested, I can add pics bit later.

Would love to see photos

 

[Flightengineer]

Would love to see photos

tomorrow afternoon, Burt

 

[ausreenactor]

tomorrow afternoon, Burt

Hopefully you put it in the right spot.... so many put them too low on the sleeve.

 

[Flightengineer]

Hopefully you put it in the right spot.... so many put them too low on the sleeve.

Sure, everything is as usual according to the AAF regulation - 1 inch from the shoulder seam

 

[ausreenactor]

Sure, everything is as usual according to the AAF regulation - 1 inch from the shoulder seam

SSI were originally authorized only on the service coat and shirts, but Change 1 added them to the overcoat and field jacket as well, and Change 9 of November 1942 added SSI wear to the mackinaw. Placement of the SSI was specified as the upper left shoulder, ½ inch below the shoulder seam on all authorized items. (Paragraph 47)

 

[Flightengineer]

SSI were originally authorized only on the service coat and shirts, but Change 1 added them to the overcoat and field jacket as well, and Change 9 of November 1942 added SSI wear to the mackinaw. Placement of the SSI was specified as the upper left shoulder, ½ inch below the shoulder seam on all authorized items. (Paragraph 47)

This is still true, but this is for shirts and field jackets etc., however, as far as I know, this did not apply to flight jackets and I remember that, for example, the reg. for applying the official AAF decal meant exactly 1 inch. In general looks like no one seems to have followed rules according tons of WW2 A2 pics.

On the original jacket of Jorge which is presented here too, an inch and not half as far as I remember, and this can be seen from his pics.

By the way, the punctual Japanese from MASH also lead this to the instructions of their AAF decal

US WWII AAF Decal Heat and Wet Transfer

 

[ausreenactor]

As long as you are happy. I have seen some shockers... at the very least you have the sexiest AAF patch secured on your jacket.

 

[Flightengineer]

Dubow



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