Marine 37J1 Jackets in 1941

[oose]

Came across these...nice to these jackets being used quite late, I'm sure their M-422a were ready to pick not long after this.







All the best
stu

 

[dujardin]

thanks again for those brilliant pics

this could be one more on my wish list

 

[deeb7]

Came across these...nice to these jackets being used quite late, I'm sure their M-422a were ready to pick not long after this.

Great photos ... the jackets look like 37J1B from the 1939 contract. These were Summer weight, so the replacements would have been the short lived M375, followed by the M421.

 

[zoomer]

Great shots. Obviously the material in these isn't the Bedford cord we usually see.

Marine fliers always got the Navy's hand-me-downs - certainly planes (please tell me they didn't see any action in those F3Fs), and apparently jackets too. You see Navy fliers wearing the '421 already in '41.

Is that a globe wing on his nameplate?

 

[SuinBruin]

Great pics, thanks for posting. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a 37J1 repro in 2011.

 

[ghq1]

DIVE BOMBER 1941 from screen captures on TFL

Looks a lot like the Willis & Geiger NA-1 . . . Is the NA-1 just the 37J1? Or another W&G fantasy piece?

 

[zoomer]

NA-1 was evidently W&G's made-up name for the 37J1. My guess is that they had only seen them in pictures when they made it in the 80s - that and the very lightweight bedford cord in my NA-1 suggest so.

BTW, pix are of Capt. Frank Wirsig commanding VMF-1 at Quantico. They definitely date before July, 1941, when the squadron re-equipped with F4Fs, and probably before February, when the yellow wing/inverted vee colors began to phase out.

 

[asiamiles]

Great shots. Obviously the material in these isn't the Bedford cord we usually see.

It could be Bedford Cord - indeed, I'm not aware they were made in any other material - and the texture of the material doesn't show up in the photos...look at the nametag on the jacket to see that it's not that sharp and detailed.