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B3 fit pic

John Lever

Moderator
It doesn't get much better than this.
Long arms and shorter bodies but plenty of room to move easily. Look how soft the leather is and some curly fleece there. One jacket looks like the fleece might be brown, certainly not white. The fleece on the cuffs looks much longer than 6mm....

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Griffon_301

Well-Known Member
Could it be that the darker fleece was caused by some fluids that somehow came in touch with it?
I can imagine that a WW2 bomber in combat could be a rather messy place to work in/with...
 

Silver Surfer

Well-Known Member
cant be sure from the pix, but the b-3 on the left may be a recently issued redskin, redskins when new had a reddish brown fur due to the dye used leaching through the hide to the fur. some more then others. over time the fur color would fade to a yellowish cream or even an ecru color.
 

John Lever

Moderator
cant be sure from the pix, but the b-3 on the left may be a recently issued redskin, redskins when new had a reddish brown fur due to the dye used leaching through the hide to the fur. some more then others. over time the fur color would fade to a yellowish cream or even an ecru color.
Love to see a true colour photo of something like this
 

CoopDog

Active Member
Pretty cool !.......Did he ever tell you what type of aircraft he flew?
He told us a lot of stories. B-17G. 381st BG (H). 534th BS. 28 missions as second pilot, 2 as 1st pilot. DFC. Flew combat from January - May, 1944. Six of his thirty missions were to Berlin. He wrote a magazine article about his second to last mission (which was his 1st as first pilot) during which his aircraft was hit by FW 190’s near Berlin and he lost two engines but he managed to bring the aircraft home and land at his own base, which was Ridgewell

The gentleman second from right in the back row, Connor Myers, was the first pilot. He completed his combat tour two missions before the second pilot who then became 1st pilot. Myers survived 30 hellish combat missions but, sadly, was killed in a training accident later in the war
 
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