Best photos of famous people wearing true vintage leather jackets (military, but not only)

[flyincowboy]

BOB HOPE AND FRIENDS

 

[Chandler]

What? No Jerry Colonna?

 

[Micawber]

What? No Jerry Colonna?

Is that Francis Langford?

 

[Chandler]

Is that Francis Langford?

You could be right.

I was wondering about the squatting jemoke in the pin-striped double-breasted.

Great A-2s and confiscated Brit battle dress jackets, though.

 

[2BM2K]

BOB HOPE AND FRIENDS

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Some information about this photo, sourced from the the book Wild Blue Yonder.

In the photo are; Bob Hope, Francis Langford, Tony Romano.

With Lt. Ellsworth F. Kenyon's crew. B17 Lallah VIII, 364th BS, 305th BG at Chelveston 5th July 1943.

Kenyon and crew were shot down on Schweinfurt mission on 14th October 1943.

RO Russell J. Algren was KIA, all others made POW.

 

[ZuZu]

Keith Carradine wearing a B-3- Madonna's "Material Girl" video.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

If you gentlemen and ladies remember this scene from Empire of the Sun:

Allow me introduce Major John·C·Herbst
"Tex" Hill hand picked him from Eglin air base at 1943. After he was transferred into 74th Sqn, he shot down 8 Japanese aircraft in 3 months, became one of the best AAF ace at China and CBI threat. He planed and personal commanded the great air raid against Japanese aviation force stationed in Shanghai at 1945.1.17. For some reason i don't know, in the movie, that P-51 is belong to 118 Tactical Recon Sqn. 74th's plane wasn't there.

 

[Blackboxr1200S]

If you gentlemen and ladies remember this scene from Empire of the Sun:
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P-51 Cadillac of the skies!

Great movie, launched the young Christian Bale.

 

[asiamiles]

Russ Meyer, then of the 166th Signal Photographic Company, snapped by fellow 166th combat photographer Charles Sumners in France, 1944, scanned from Jimmy McDonough's biography. Has Russ put a 3rd Army patch on top of a 'Cameraman Official' patch?

And a rather better quality pic of Russ (with Sumners to his left).

And Russ in a D-1.

 

[B-Man2]

Russ Meyer, then of the 166th Signal Photographic Company, snapped by fellow 166th combat photographer Charles Sumners in France, 1944, scanned from Jimmy McDonough's autobiography. Has Russ put a 3rd Army patch on top of a 'Cameraman Official' patch?

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And a rather better quality pic of Russ (with Sumners to his left).

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And Russ in a D-1.

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Looks like he’s wearing a French style cyclist jacket in the top photo .

 

[asiamiles]

Looks like he’s wearing a French style cyclist jacket in the top photo .

Same jacket in the middle pic. Yes, would certainly seem to make more sense than him taking a leather jacket with him, though he could also have picked it up in England before crossing the channel; only thing, weren't ball and chain zipper pulls an American thing?

 

[ZuZu]

Ozzy Osbourne G-1 type Navy jacket "Paranoia" video:

If you watch the video you see it's an original...

 

[Erwin]

Ozzy Osbourne G-1 type Navy jacket "Paranoia" video:

This is great, well-spotted THX for adding, the jacket looks a bit like a civilian version with "heavy" knitted cuffs and a waistband, see another clip from the Beat-Club session. The title is a bit different

 

[ZuZu]

This is great, well-spotted THX for adding, the jacket looks a bit like a civilian version with "heavy" knitted cuffs and a waistband, see another clip from the Beat-Club session. The title is a bit different

I couldn't see the jacket clearly- I did see the underarm gussets so my mind filled in the gaps.

 

[Erwin]

Gladly the music is more important than a jacket regarding BS. You can see a bit more details via a clip from the link below:

You added a super cool find about Ozzie's flight jacket, a good starting point to look for more pictures

 

[ZuZu]

Gladly the music is more important than a jacket regarding BS. You can see a bit more details via a clip from the link below:

You added a super cool find about Ozzie's flight jacket, a good starting point to look for more pictures

Wow Thanks! What do you think the jacket is? Original or civilian? I still can't tell. Thanks for posting- I forgot how great they were.

 

[Erwin]

Still hard to spot it, looks a bit like my "civi" m422a Willis & Geiger with heavy knitted knits.... But can be wrong here Hard to tell, but now I know that I will waste time looking for some early Ozzie pictures.

 

[busdrivermike]

James dean A2, not sure but looks like it might have had a
Name tag once on the left chest

 

[Chandler]

James dean A2, not sure but looks like it might have had a
Name tag once on the left chest
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Colorized.

 

[Micawber]