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Is this a real WW2 jacket?
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greyhound52
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Unknown maker contract 1756
Swing
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deeb7 said:
If you have any evidence to show this is anything other than speculation, I'd love to see it.
The speculation that I've always heard is that Dubow, Bronco and Perry all had had prior contracts, they expected to have more contracts, and had material orders in the pipeline. They had invested in making more A-2s, and the govt had pulled the rug out from under them. Rather than leave them, and their suppliers, high and dry, the AAF ordered more jackets. I don't quite buy that though, because A-2 orders had been stopped two years prior by the time summer '44 rolled around. They knew in April '42 there weren't going to be any more A-2 contracts awarded after May or June '42. To be expecting new A-2 contracts in '43 or '44 doesn't make sense.
As for needing more small sizes. There would have been over 1 million A-2s already produced by summer '44, and the jacket had for all intents and purposes been replaced by the B-10, and contracts for it's replacedment (the B-15) had already been awarded. I honestly can't see there being a real need for 50,000 more size 36, 38 and 40 A-2s.
I can't say for sure why those three A-2 contracts were awarded in summer '44, and I doubt anyone else can either.
~Swing
Swing said:
Sorry Swing .... when I posted it was my own conclusion, and the possibility of an alternative explanation didn't occur to me.
We know from the number of A-2's appearing with the shoulder transfers, that they were still being refurbished, and reissued in quantity during 1944. So if existing units could still order replacement A-2s, it seemed logical, to me, that they would want to maintain a complete size range.
