This flying jacket was worn by the pilot of the B17 Flying Fortress aircraft, which was given the name 'Fever Beaver' by its crew, on its 100th mission. The plane saw action from January 1944 and ...
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“Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art,” creates a visual record of A-2 jackets from World War II as seen through the lens of award-winning photographer John Slemp.
APPRAISER: So, what you have here is a World War II Army Air Corps A-2 flight jacket. Would have been worn by individual fighter pilots, um, and also, uh, some bomb crews wore the jacket.