What jacket(s) are you wearing at the moment?

[Spitfireace]

We get the same with coyotes and mountain lions. Especially when it's dry in the hills and mountains.
LA County and state transportation dept are building a bleedin' bridge/overpass for the animals to cross the freeway safely. It's on the 101 near Calabasas (kardashian kalabasas). Too much inbreeding on the disparate sides of that great divide.
One mountain lion that had been tagged with a monitor, P-22, had to be shot. He was well known and much loved here, and the people in LA and environs had an effing celebration of life and huge send off for the bugger. Like a goddam celebrity. Typical LA. Arseholes.
My question is, are the critters going to be taught to read Spanish or English for the signage at the ends of the bridge? Maybe bilingual, like most signs around So.Cal. Will there be traffic signals and crossing guards? What about the families of hikers stupid enough to walk across and get attacked and et? Whom will they sue for the lunacy of the decedent?
I gotta get outta here.

I think they need braille too on the signs. Just in case the critters can't see too well.

 

[John Luder]

I think they need braille too on the signs. Just in case the critters can't see too well.

Doh! So simple. Much too logical for the government agencies to figure out. Thanks much. I'll forward that to LA county. They could also station an optometrist, or dispensing optician at each end of the bridge, which, BTW, should be about four lanes wide, in each direction to avoid head-on collisions. With a concrete center divider.

 

[John Luder]

A question for all and sundry: Has anyone been close enough for details, or seen a good enough photo, of Jimmy Stewart's A-2, to see if the bomb has a propeller on its nose?
Yogie and Eastman, and some vendors, have a prop, but the original isn't clear enough for me to discern.
Thanks for your thoughts.
John

 

[B-Man2]

A question for all and sundry: Has anyone been close enough for details, or seen a good enough photo, of Jimmy Stewart's A-2, to see if the bomb has a propeller on its nose?
Yogie and Eastman, and some vendors, have a prop, but the original isn't clear enough for me to discern.
Thanks for your thoughts.
John

Here ya go !

 

[Spitfireace]

Name tag is stamped silver gold white? Kinda different than the usual stamped with no foil. No first initial either. Maybe private purchase instead of regulation?

 

[mulceber]

In addition to flying combat missions, Stewart made recruitment videos for the AAF. I imagine the light-colored letters were to make sure it was visible on screen. Maybe the lack of a first initial was also an image thing?

 

[Spitfireace]

 

[Spitfireace]

In addition to flying combat missions, Stewart made recruitment videos for the AAF. I imagine the light-colored letters were to make sure it was visible on screen. Maybe the lack of a first initial was also an image thing?

Everybody knew who he was obviously. Didn't really even need a name tag.

 

[Spitfireace]

I'm just joshing you, he was one of of a bunch of Hollywood guys who stepped up and interrupted their careers to further the war effort. By the way, one who is not an actor President Carter who I heard today is checking in to paliative. At 98 he is the same age as my father who lives alone still. Last of a generation.

 

[John Luder]

Thanks. Now I can see the hint of a prop. I couldn't get that close on my computer without losing details.
Jimmy was also considerably taller than most.
Keeping in mind that that is his earlier jacket. He wore a different one in later photos; no patch and the major or light colonel oak leaves on the shoulders. On that, he has a normal-looking stamped type of strip. Interesting ankle boots, nicely shined. Not the monk straps he's wearing in the photo with Clark Gable.
Notice, also, that even in 1944-45, when he gets the Croix de Guerre, his dress uniform has the Brit made patch, or early style of stubby wing 8th patch. They got that wrong in the 1949 12 O'Clock High, also the ribbon sets and the Ike jacket that Hugh Marlowe is wearing in his first scene.
Cheer,
John

 

[Spitfireace]

Not sure what you mean. Gregory Peck was twelve o' clock high with Hugh Marlowe.

 

[John Luder]

Not sure what you mean. Gregory Peck was twelve o' clock high with Hugh Marlowe.

Peck was too young to have the hours needed for a command pilot, but that’s dramatic license for casting. Marlowe wore an Ike when he was arrested and brought to Savage. The movie is set in late ‘42-early ‘43. Ike was the only Army officer with the custom coat and the Army didnt issue them till mid-ish ‘44.
The movie should have used the stubby wing 8th AF patch, was the point from which I digressed.

 

[Spitfireace]

Right, that's why thy called them the Ike jacket. He was the one who customised it. Eisenhower that is.

 

[John Luder]

Now I see, said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
I’ve been married to a woman who neglects proper transitions and have picked that up. Arghhh
No, Stewart wasnt in 12 oclock, which we both know but I jumped from Stewart’s shoulder patch to Peck without the segue.

 

[Spitfireace]

Stubby wing was earlier yes. I realize that.

 

[Spitfireace]

Segue. yes, I was looking for another term like train of thought.

 

[Spitfireace]

Did you imply that Peck was playing Stewart? In twelve o clock high?

 

[Spitfireace]

I was a big fan of the series also which was good. Paul Burke.

 

[D97x7]

BK 1755 Dubow

 

[Stravaiger]

The day I sold my jacket to one of my club mates , £60 aye , he knows it was a bargain , so did I ,

I wanted to see it getting used which is why Antartex made it