Long-shot ID Request: Buck Cleven’s A-2

[Jennison]

Gale “Buck” Cleven has been on my All-Manhood team since I first read “Flying Fortress” in high school and I’m happy he was brought into the living rooms of the world with “Masters of the Air.” It just occurred to me: I should ask this august body if Cleven’s A-2 could be identified. Boy, if anyone could make an A-2 look like pure swag, he could. The photos of him wearing it aren’t so great, but I wonder if you guys can use that forensic charm of yours to harvest just enough details to make at least an educated guess.

 

[Skyhawk]

It could be a Bronco. It has double stitched eps, wide collar stitch, no collar stand, and ring snaps. Also it appears to have double stitching on the inside pocket top.

 

[Brettafett]

100% Bronco and going by the dates, a 29191.

 

[ludospeed]

Bronco flap.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Hard to tell, but the pocket bottoms appear to be square, as against bronco pocket bottoms, which are always angled at the bottom corners. Highly “scalloped” pocket flaps are seen on a coupla originals, including star a-2s. Even Aeros sometimes had scalloped” pocket flaps sometimes.

 

[Lorenzo_l]

The pockets' bottom corners look pretty much beveled, i.e. a la Bronco:

 

[Silver Surfer]

Aha, my little phone pic seen at 5am wasn’t clear enough…that or my old eyes weren’t yet operational.

 

[mulceber]

Interesting, I’d thought it was a Star, due to the curve of that collar, but from the close-up it looks like the pocket has ring snaps. So, Bronco, like everyone else said.

 

[mulceber]

Also, from the second picture, it appears that the leather backing of the pocket snap is rounded, like below:

Star's snap backings are square:

Oh, and beveling on the bottom of the pocket is visible.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Need better cheaters

 

[Thomas Koehle]

Mall jacket from AVIREX (sorry - couldn't stand it ...)

 

[Jennison]

Well, he did escape his captors so it must have a map lining. And here you guys are, making fun of Avirex when it saved this hero's life. No seriously, you guys are amazing! These aren't educated guesses, they're well-informed answers!