Original U.S. WWII Miss Burma 47th Bombardment Group A-2 Flight Jacket Field Gear Besides enabling detection of enemy

Besides enabling detection of enemy movement

History of the The 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team

At daylight on June 18th

Length overall is approximately 15 1/2 inches

Original U.S. WWII Miss Burma 47th Bombardment Group A-2 Flight Jacket Field Gear Besides enabling detection of enemyOriginal Item: One of a kind. This jacket was featured on page 120 of the wonderful book AMERICAN FLIGHT JACKETS by Jon A. Maguire and John P. Conway considered by many to be the bible of flight jacket collecting. The description in the book reads: The air gunner who wore this jacket apparently flew 38 missions of a 50 mission tour (it is difficult to tell exactly what he was representing with his bomb scoreboard, as there are 50 bombs, but only 38