New 1930s A-2 Discovery

[gunnarthefeisty]

Well...

The Mighty A-2: A Guide to the Army Air Forces’ Leather Flying Jacket

Introduction: One of the first things that any newbie stumbling onto vintageleatherjackets.org (VLJ) and looking to buy a flight jacket learns (besides “it costs how much?!”) is that there was not one A-2 jacket, but countless combinations of patterns, leathers, zippers, thread and knit colors...

www.vintageleatherjackets.org

Private purchase jackets would probably be far too wide-ranging and numerous to nail them all down with any accuracy.

This really doesn't cover anything but A-2s in any comprehensive manner. To the best of my knowledge Full Gear covers quite a few private purchase jackets of many types.

 

[Chandler]

To the best of my knowledge Full Gear covers quite a few private purchase jackets of many types.

To quote Jan, covers them speculatively and demonstrably wrong.

But neither of us have actually seen the rather overpriced, very over rated book, have we?

I'll stick to the experts I know.