Recent content by NW Carver

Today, it’s my ‘Perry’ A2, size 42, this jacket is very interesting. It’s a ‘re-dye’ which you can see inside the pockets was originally a camel colour overall - but was then re-dyed with another colour over the top, at the same time a new liner was put inside (not the same as the wartime...

Thank you - I picked this one up years ago now, would have been around 1999 or 2000....got the knits done and wore it only occassionally, as i did not want to ruin it. I remember talking to John Chapman about this jacket, and its patch, back in the days he was on here and before he started...

Original Poughkeepsie A2, size 42 - all original except the wrist and waist knits which I had replaced (still kept the originals though) - and the liner has faded to almost orange towards the neck, with some small rips, holes and darning… Someone’s initials are in the liner - but very faded, so...

Thank you - its VB-5 when it was based on the USS Yorktown, flying the SBD Dauntless...

Yep, sorry - amended that - typo on my behalf :-(

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to member Jorge on here He kindly reached out to me about the CWU 36p that I had bought - explained some more about the jacket, and offered to sell me one from his own collection, if I preferred the USAF versions… Although I did not take him on his kind...

Swopped it out for my mint Willis & Geiger M422a - size 42 - and named in the liner (any blemishes you see is dust and crud on the mirror I took the pic in - been doing some DIY - not the jacket)

Wearing my ‘put back together/rescued from the dead’ M422a…(any blemishes you see is dust etc on the mirror I use to take these - been doing some DIY..) .

Cool jacket - and nice to see an early example of this type :)

I will see what I can find out

Agreed, I think more a functional thing....I will put some feelers out with a few friends of mine that are ex U.K. military but have friends who are ex US army vets - see if they have any remembrances about this - a long shot but you never know, would be interesting to find out

Thank you for clarifying that I must admit, my mind was a bit hazy on recollecting the details on the Werber - the jackets had all been stored away for a while while I made several home moves - and it’s only now that I have dug them all out again....Somewhere, I still have two A2s and an...

Thank you - I used to have a few more but sold them over the years

yep, definitely a mystery there - I wonder if it relates to what the person is operating in when they are wearing the jacket - and if the edge of the flap on one side was getting in the way of some part of the machinery or a control....For example, maybe in a tight cockpit or the confines of a...

Have pm you about that option :-)