WW2 original color photos

[B-Man2]

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Interesting jacket with that collar tab . I wonder what kind of jacket that he’s wearing .

 

[flyincowboy]

Interesting jacket with that collar tab . I wonder what kind of jacket that he’s wearing .

Might be a private purchase?

 

[Blackboxr1200S]

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Bill Webster, test-pilot and poster boy
Curtiss-Wright P-40B/C Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk Production in Buffalo, Kenmore Avenue Plant, winter 1941
Curtiss test pilot William Webster. Behind him is one of the first Curtiss P-40B fighters to be delivered to the Air Corps.
Photographer: Dmitri Kessel, Life Magazine

 

[B-Man2]

Could be an early Werber with a leather throat tab

 

[mulceber]

Yep, probably 1936 Werber. Some of them at least were made using that type of closure. Interestingly, those jackets didn’t have a collar stand either.

 

[Silver Surfer]

and, the side with the collar strap looks to be jetted on the liner. common to 4-5 pre war a-2 contracts.

 

[Greg Gale]

Nice A-2, any guesses about the contract? A Spiewak?

 

[Emchisti]

That Typhoon

 

[mulceber]

Nice A-2, any guesses about the contract? A Spiewak?

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That would be my guess.

 

[Enigma1938]

Nice A-2, any guesses about the contract? A Spiewak?

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Look how white the fleece is on the B3, every repro company seems to think that it was only cream colored...

 

[Pilot]

Kodakcr

 

[B-Man2]

Nice A-2, any guesses about the contract? A Spiewak?

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Never knew that US pilots flew British marked Typhoons. Maybe it was just a photo op next to one .