Show Us Your “Vintage” Good Wear Jackets.

[Grant]

Wow Bert, amazing B-15A! The vintage mouton John used really makes the jacket.

 

[B-Man2]

Wow Bert, amazing B-15A! The vintage mouton John used really makes the jacket.

Thanks Grant .... I was fortunate to come across this one. As CBI mentioned, JC doesn’t make many cloth jackets and he really did a nice job with this one.

 

[B-Man2]

I hope you guys are enjoying these threads. I thought I’d share another Good Wear jacket that I picked up a while back. This is definitely one of my favorites, because I believe it was one of John Chapman’s personal jackets . While I don’t have personal knowledge of that , the name tag leads me to believe that it might have been .

 

[stanier]

Here’s a rare bird , a GW B-15a . A great jacket that deserves more wear time than I give it.
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Now that B-Man2 is the best jacket I've ever seen you post bar none, imho. And you've posted some beauties before and no mistake. Absolutely stunning. If we had a time machine and took that back to a USAAF base in 1945, no one would blink an eye. Cant say that about all the jackets on here of late, IMHO, just my view guys, but I know what my peepers are seeing. No "lipstick on a pig" with that baby.

 

[stanier]

I hope you guys are enjoying these threads. I thought I’d share another Good Wear jacket that I picked up a while back. This is definitely one of my favorites, because I believe it was one of John Chapman’s personal jackets . While I don’t have personal knowledge of that , the name tag leads me to believe that it might have been .View attachment 43225View attachment 43226View attachment 43227View attachment 43231

Followed hot on the heels by another!!

 

[B-Man2]

Followed hot on the heels by another!!

Thanks for the kind words Stan....
That GW you just picked up looks every bit as good to my eyes as anything I’ve posted here.
Congrats again on that one .

 

[ausreenactor]

CBI patch? Hmmmm

 

[B-Man2]

CBI patch? Hmmmm

I know... it would have had to been a jacket that was issued around the early to mid 1930s and worn right up through the early 1940’s I’m guessing . PLUS.... it a Navy jacket with an USAAF patch . Kind of a strange huh?
Any ideas Couchy?
Edit : Since several of the AVG guys were Navy pilots I’m guessing that after the transition back to the US military they might have worn a CBI patch on their USN flight jackets . Just a guess .

 

[ausreenactor]

Nobody loves patches more than a US Navy pilot..

CBI was post AVG... It looks good, go for it.. Hey, you're not John Chapman either, but the name plate is killer too...

 

[B-Man2]

Nobody loves patches more than a US Navy pilot..

CBI was post AVG... It looks good, go for it.. Hey, you're not John Chapman either, but the name plate is killer too...

Thanks Couchy This might be the answer to the question . Check this out. Here’s a photo of an AVG, USN M-422a jacket that’s in the Wright Patterson Museum . The jacket was owned by Donald Bell AVG Group . So I guess a USN pilot could have had a 37J1 that he was wearing during that period and had a CBI patch on it.

 

[ausreenactor]

Possible.. yes. Probable.. 50/50...

Donald Bell was a clerk that commissioned into the AAF in China.. Where he got the Navy jacket? Who knows... A former supply buddy doing him a solid..

 

[ausreenactor]

The AVG only existed for seven months before becoming an AAF unit..

The Navy kit appeared to be very popular..

 

[B-Man2]

The AVG only existed for seven months before becoming an AAF unit..

The Navy kit appeared to be very popular..

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Good posts Couchy .
I guess only JC would know why the jacket has a CBI patch . Interesting for sure.

 

[CBI]

I don't own this one anymore but its a very early GW jacket

 

[ausreenactor]

Good posts Couchy .
I guess only JC would know why the jacket has a CBI patch . Interesting for sure.

If it ain't broke...

I am sure the stitching is faultless....front and back.

 

[B-Man2]

I don't own this one anymore but its a very easy GW jacket
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That’s a classic John.
These older GWs are starting to look like originals .

 

[CBI]

yes, loved the jacket but it was too large for me.

 

[blackrat2]

Couchy, is the USL the one you got from me
In hindsight I wish i could get that back and give it a heap more wear, why do we sell these things!!??

 

[ausreenactor]

Couchy, is the USL the one you got from me
In hindsight I wish i could get that back and give it a heap more wear, why do we sell these things!!??

Think so...

Haven't moved an A-2 on in years now. Back up to eight of em....

 

[Dom]

Here is my 27753 no name contract. Not sure of the age since I bought it second hand, but the grain is coming out pretty nice.