Flight Jacket Books

[Pilot]

Sold mine...( the book ).. a few months back for 450 Euro... should have kept it....
I know where it is... Maybe I can buy it back...

 

[Flightengineer]

Art of the Flight Jacket is a great book. Never get tired of paging through it.

Undoubtedly!
But today I finally got American Flight Jackets, Airmen & Aircraft: A History of U.S. Flyers' Jackets from World War I to Desert Storm. (Thanks to Thomas!)
And I want to say that I liked her even more.
There will be something to do, looking at beautiful photos at sunset career.

 

[Jorgeenriqueaguilera]

Undoubtedly!
But today I finally got American Flight Jackets, Airmen & Aircraft: A History of U.S. Flyers' Jackets from World War I to Desert Storm. (Thanks to Thomas!)
And I want to say that I liked her even more.
There will be something to do, looking at beautiful photos at sunset career.

I’ve seen that one on ebay, any good info??

 

[Flightengineer]

I’ve seen that one on ebay, any good info??

Pretty informative book, a lot of photos. This is not a referencebook, but a very enjoyable publication.

 

[Thomas Koehle]

Highly recommended!

Mostly not about all the tiny Details 'n differences inbetween the different manufacturers but loads of color-pics of noseart on jackets aso.

 

[Saint-ex]

Ohh no, they aren’t in order, I bought mine in US, just random numbers.

I confirm, just received mine...

 

[Brettafett]

Can you take some pics? Ive only seen a few...

 

[Smithy]

Two new books.View attachment 26150

The Osprey Men at Arms series is usually very good Cabbie and excellent value.

The SAS one reminds me of one of my Holy Grails of militaria which I would love to have - an original, genuine first issue SAS beret in white. Pretty much rarer than unicorn dung.

 

[London Cabbie]

Do you know the reasoning behind why they were issued white...?

I never knew that, but thought they were sand because of the desert theatre.

 

[Smithy]

Do you know the reasoning behind why they were issued white...?

I never knew that, but thought they were sand because of the desert theatre.

I don't know the reasoning why they were but the very first SAS berets were white. The colour was not used for long as it was very visible when off duty in Cairo and there were a lot of fights which broke out with other military personnel making rude remarks like "snow drops" because of the white beret. It was changed after a fairly short time and hence why genuine, original white SAS berets are so unbelievably rare.

 

[MikeyB-17]

I took a chap to hospital once who was with the original SAS in the desert. He said he’d tell me all about it on the way, but he fell asleep!

 

[Whatsit]

I took a chap to hospital once who was with the original SAS in the desert. He said he’d tell me all about it on the way, but he fell asleep!

Oh is that funny. That’s something that would happen to me

 

[Flightengineer]

I really don't understand how the book about the uniforms of the SS who were involved in genocide and guilty of the gravest crimes during WWII against civilians has to do with flight jackets and books about flight jackets.

 

[London Cabbie]

 

[mulceber]

I really don't understand how the book about the uniforms of the SS who were involved in genocide and guilty of the gravest crimes during WWII against civilians has to do with flight jackets and books about flight jackets.

I was thinking something similar. Seems like an insult to the other soldiers just to have a book about the Waffen-SS on the same shelf.

 

[London Cabbie]

Apologies if I caused any offence. None intended

 

[Whatsit]

@London Cabbie you should not have taken the picture of the books off here. Everyone is afraid of offending someone else now days. How crazy. Now to be fair the Germans did bomb our fish and chip shop but to get worked up like that doesn’t seem right. Just my opinion of course

 

[Silver Surfer]

hot damn, and i thought that i was over paying when i ponied up close to two bills buying the "full gear" book directly from aota, years ago.

 

[ausreenactor]

The Osprey Men at Arms series is usually very good Cabbie and excellent value.

The SAS one reminds me of one of my Holy Grails of militaria which I would love to have - an original, genuine first issue SAS beret in white. Pretty much rarer than unicorn dung.

Unicorn dung, Guardsman's shit.. Rare = Value.

I am collecting the wrong stuff!

 

[Smithy]

Unicorn dung, Guardsman's shit.. Rare = Value.

I am collecting the wrong stuff!

I saw a very early issue (think 1942) tan SAS beret go for £22,000 (no I'm not kidding) earlier this year.

Now on the back of that just imagine what a genuine SAS white beret might go for at auction...

In terms of the Waffen-SS books and stuff, I can't stand the bastards so you won't catch me shelling out money for a book on the pricks, but what others choose to read is their own business.