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Update on this jacket....It was stolen in Va. Beach, Virginia five years ago. If anyone sees this jacket or patch show up please let me know at [email protected]. Thanks!

Trick looking buckles !

Your post shows just fine.

Certainly looks like a DKW, later design given to the allies as war booty in the form of BSA C1(?), Puch, & Harley-Davidson Sprint(1st generation).

According to my brother, who has collected American inline four m'cycles for years, he bought a 1921 ACE from McQueen in 1976. When he met McQueen to pick up the bike, McQueen was wearing an A-2 with stitching holes for a nametag. No further attention was paid to the jacket. Don't know if it's...

The tire on the back of the pictured jeep has what appears to be a 5.00x16" Goodyear motorcycle tire - they used whatever they could lay their hands on.

I just got this jacket but he has yet to post shipping charges. Anyone close to Ipswich?

In case you are sitting on a bunch of flightsuits, would you have or know the whereabouts of a wool AN-6550 in a 46 or 48 long?

T.M.I.!

Looks like capeskin.

Could it be that the "meatball" is for army aircraft & the "meatball" with rays is for naval aircraft? Isn't the flag with rays a naval ensign?

Thanks for the heads-up. Delaware is a nice daytrip on the Harley - I'll be sure to check out the museum.

While flying more P-47s than any other pilot, she had the distinction of delivering "Ten Grand". the 10,000th Thunderbolt.

Is that Teresa James' jacket? She's a cousin! I can't find anything about it on the site.

It was not at all unusual for Ninth Airforce fighter bomber pilots to fly 100 missions-being close to the action & having to accumulate 200 combat hours to rotate home, many more missions were needed than fighter escorts from the Eighth.