Jacket art photos at the 'Retronaut'

[deand]

Great pictures of A-2 jacket art:

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/01/u-s-air-force-personalised-bomber-jackets-wwii/






dean

 

[Anonymous]

Great site thanks.

 

[greyhound52]

Great site the jacket with the Japanese ships etc is unusual. Don't recall every seeing one like that.

 

[Weasel_Loader]

Thanks for sharing the link. Being a huge fan of vintage color photographs, I'll be busy all night. What a interesting website.

 

[Jaguar46]

I ran across one of the pilots of Satans Chillen, William Mannix in Santa Rosa when the Liberty Belle was there in April last year.

 

[Peter Graham]

Fantastic site Dean. Many thanks.

 

[442RCT]

Great site the jacket with the Japanese ships etc is unusual. Don't recall every seeing one like that.

The mission marks on this jacket represent:

100 mission symbols, 5 Japanese flags (presumably fighter kills), one battleship kill, 4 cruiser kills, six merchant ship kills and two smaller craft.

This was T/Sgt James W. Cannon’s record in the Pacific Theater of Operations, before he was assigned to the 8th AF in the ETO !

“Technical Sergeant James W Cannon is a modest fellow. Although only 21 years old, here is his incredible record:

He has flown 68 operational missions in the South Pacific in B-25s, B-26s, B-17s and B-29s, and B-17s in the ETO.

Confirmed credit for the destruction of five Jap Zeros. (this technically makes him an Ace)

He took part on the Battle of the Bismark Sea when his aircraft skip-bombed at 30 feet over the water and sank a Jap heavy cruiser.

He wears the Silver Star, DFC with two Oak Leaf clusters, Air Medal with eight clusters, Purple Heart, Asiatic-South Pacific ribbon with two bronze stars, ETO ribbon with two stars, Presidential Citation Award with two clusters and the American Defense and Good Conduct ribbons.”

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