John Lever
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Another take on B3 'fit'
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B3 fit
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Silver Surfer
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yeah, over size to fit over tons of gear for the gunners. usually heavy bomber pilots and co-pilots wore them to fit, as they did not have all that gear to wear underneath.
John Lever
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Look at the iridescent sheen on the collar of the left jacket
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John Lever
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Both look pretty loose fitting
Southoftheborder
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Isn't the bloke on the right a Hollywood director? I think I know the face but can't place him.
D97x7
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LIFE Photographer Margaret Bourke-White poses in flight gear in front of a B-17 with USAAF Capt Hazen J. Payette, Intelligence Officer, 97th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force in North Africa - 1943
Hazen Joseph Payette, Born Oct 9, 1898, was a WW1 Naval Reserve Veteran who later obtained his law degree and worked for the City of Detroit and later in Private Practice until April 14 1942 when he joined the USAAF with a commission into Air Combat Intelligence. While serving in North Africa he advanced in rank to Captain and then Major.
Rotating back to the USA in September 1944, Lt Col Hazen Payette was sent to Tinian, Mariana Islands in May 1945 as the Intelligence Officer (S-2) of the USAAF 509th Composite Group.
The 509th CG was the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Unit which conducted the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945.
After the Japanese surrender, Hazen was honorably discharged on January 26, 1946, He returned to the Detroit area and continued his law practice until 1953 when he moved to Winter Park, Florida with his wife Helen where he lived until his death on July 25, 1962 at the age of 63.
NOTE: While the location of this picture wasn’t listed, Margaret took another picture of Capt Payette in North Africa which had a location listed
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LIFE Photographer Margaret Bourke-White poses in flight gear in front of a B-17 with USAAF Capt Hazen J. Payette, Intelligence Officer, 97th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force in North Africa - 1943
Hazen Joseph Payette, Born Oct 9, 1898, was a WW1 Naval Reserve Veteran who later obtained his law degree and worked for the City of Detroit and later in Private Practice until April 14 1942 when he joined the USAAF with a commission into Air Combat Intelligence. While serving in North Africa he advanced in rank to Captain and then Major.
Rotating back to the USA in September 1944, Lt Col Hazen Payette was sent to Tinian, Mariana Islands in May 1945 as the Intelligence Officer (S-2) of the USAAF 509th Composite Group.
The 509th CG was the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Unit which conducted the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945.
After the Japanese surrender, Hazen was honorably discharged on January 26, 1946, He returned to the Detroit area and continued his law practice until 1953 when he moved to Winter Park, Florida with his wife Helen where he lived until his death on July 25, 1962 at the age of 63.
NOTE: While the location of this picture wasn’t listed, Margaret took another picture of Capt Payette in North Africa which had a location listed
LIFE Magazine Archives
YoungMedic
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that was my thought Chandler
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