Nice period photos (all jackets except A-2's)

[Oliver]

SS Men wearing a "Hartmannjacket"

 

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Waffen SS use a privat purchase Jacket.

 

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Well know photo from Kc winner Adolf Glunz note the trouser! also a taillor made.

 

[Oliver]

very nice jacket from Adolf Galland.

 

[Oliver]

Hubert Engst from the JG 300 use zivl Motorcycle Jacket.

 

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Ofw Knies from the 7.Jg 2 use a similar jacket

 

[Oliver]

unknown observer, cyclist jacket.

 

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Waffen Ss men in a zivil motorcycle jacket 4 pokets

 

[Oliver]

on of my favorite jacket. stucka pilot. imo schlachtgeschwader 1

 

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That is some historical photograph. Two very prominent characters there. Do you when/where picture was taken Grant?

Even more interesting that it’s a Rollieflex around his neck rather than his trusty Contax

 

[Oliver]

very nice jacket from a member of the sturmgruppen jg3 reichdefense. the" open eys" from the bomber backgunner.

 

[Persimmon]

Whilst I am war photographers this picture on my files came up of Lewis Beck Sebring being greeted by MacArthur in the latter's office in Brisbane occurred in the spring of 1943. He was a journalist and war correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune, who reported on combat in the Southwest Pacific Area theatre during WW II.
MacArthur’s A2 being a ........

 

[Kermit3D]

Very nice Irvin, rare in this configuration. I didn't realize what a short jacket the Irvin is.

 

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Amelia Earhart

 

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Look at the sizes of those Irvin’s .
Now that’s a photo that shows the different degrees of a wartime fit, If there ever was one.