GW C-2 Vest

[DJS48]

I don't know if this had been seen/discussed before, but in the book, American Flight Jackets, Airmen & Aircraft page 149, there's a Goodwear Knitting Mills C-2 vest depicted. Perhaps this was another segment to the first GW Leather Coat Company?

I vaguely remember when JC started his company, he mentioned GW Knitting Mills. Anyway, I wanted to pass on my "discovery" to the forum.

Cheers and Regards,
Don

 

[greyhound52]

Don,
He was well aware of the C-2 vest Goodwear as he did a photo shoot on my original a few years before he started his company. I mentioned it to him when he let me know the name he had chosen.

 

[DJS48]

Greyhound,
Message received.
Regards,
Don

 

[deeb7]

John's Good Wear home page notes the following ...

Near the end of World War II, a company in the U.S. named Good Wear Leather Coat Co. produced a B-10 jacket contract and one contract of A-11A flying trousers for the Army Air Forces. We have a set of trousers made by Good Wear Leather and the label from it is seen below.

There was actually a little more ...

• 1944: B-10, and A-9 trousers.
  1944: B-15, and A-11 trousers.
  1945: A-11A trousers.