CURIOUS CONCERNING ANY HISTORY OF MY MOTHERS FRIEND,

[JOE CHAPMAN]

MY MUM BRIEFLY HAD AN AMERICAN " FRIEND" IN THE 70'S AFTER MY FATHER DIED, SHE TOLD ME STORIES THAT HE FLEW MILITARY AIRCRAFT IN THE WAR, I KNOW IT WASN'T 2ND WORLD, ALL I HAVE TO GO ON IS A LEATHER JACKET, -----JACKET, FLYING, MANS, INTERMEDIATE, TYPE G-1 MIL-J -7823D ( WP) 8415-268-7799 STAR SPORTWEAR MFG.CO DSA IDD-68-C-0759 SIZE 40, IF IT WAS ISSUED TO, WHERE DID HE SERVE.
REGARDS JOE

 

[mulceber]

Hi Joe, welcome to the board. Unfortunately, that's basically nothing to go on: the information from the label just tells you what government contract this was. The G-1 was (and is) a primarily Navy jacket (although you do see Marine and Coast Guard flyers using it), and military personnel wearing that exact contract served all over the world. Unless it has some sort of personalization (name, and/or ideally, serial number), there's nothing in the jacket to identify the soldier.

 

[Chandler]

Was your mother living in a coastal city at the time? Near where a U.S. aircraft carrier may have docked?

 

[Micawber]

Without a personal name, or any other form of personalisation on or in the garment, I am afraid tracing an individual via an anonymous issued bit of kit will be nigh on impossible.

Edited as my phone believes it knows more about what I am trying to say than I do.

 

[MikeyB-17]

That’s a 1968 contract, which would make it Vietnam War era. U.S. Navy pilots certainly were heavily involved there. Doesn’t necessarily mean that that was the war he flew in, though.