Various Great Jacket Pics

[TankBuster]

I love these orginal shots from various units..............

 

[zoomer]

Great stuff Buster. Can never see too many aircrews - each is a worthy tribute.

This pic is flipped. See the patches on the right front and the backwards windflaps?

 

[fishmeok]

Jeff, where do you find those amazing pics? I wonder if we have an archive here in MN that would be worth investigating.
Cheers
Mark

 

[TankBuster]

Mark,
Join footnote.com
There are thousands of AAF pics there as well as other things. They have
the best wartime pics available for free download that I have ever seen.
They were from canisters of wartime negatives that were found apparently.
Finding certain people is almost impossible though. I tried finding shots of some
of the guys jackets that I have with no luck after over 2hrs of researching.
Still an awesome site for various pics though!

 

[greyhound52]

In the first picture are those 422/ANJ-3A/An/6552/G-1 type jackets? Sure look like it. Looks like they are also USAAF people not Navy. So could some trading have gone on??? Or is it a B-10?? Can't tell for sure.

 

[Andrew]

Jeff, thanks for posting these- particularly like the top one. I love the tone of the left hand jacket- I thought it was just wear but it seems he's been lying on his back in the dust- not only on the jacket but his cap and trousers!

 

[tamoko]

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[TankBuster]

Looks like B-10's to me!

 

[tamoko]

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[zoomer]

This is the crew of the famous Bomerang, a B-24 that participated in the Ploesti raid and went on to fly a total of 53 missions before returning to the US on a war bond tour in 1944.
Capt. Walt Stewart, pilot, is shaking hands with Gen. Pat Timberlake, AAF Chief of Air Staff.

More about Walt Stewart and Bomerang here, including more pix taken at this session.

 

[TankBuster]

Looks like B-10's to me!

b-10 with out epaulets?

Yes, I've seen original B-10's with no Epps. I know that there was
a forum member that owned one, and shared pics here.

 

[Clyde from Carolina]

Very cool pictures, some of the best I've seen in a while of aircrews.

 

[usafwso]

Looks as if the collection does not include post war nylon jackets. I still have a series on Laser Disk that contained hundreds of thousands of photos like this. Unfortunately, with the old technology, the images are only NTSC 525 lines of resolution. I should dig out the disks and see of the old LD machine still works.

 

[EMBLEMHUNTER]

pilot in reversed photo 80100A.C./A11987 is wearing 535th Bomb Sqd/381st Bomb Grp, pilot in photo B-71022A.C./A11449 is wearing 527th Bomb Sqd/379th Bomb Grp emblem.