Nice period photos (all jackets except A-2's)

[Shanghai-Mayne]

1946-ish at Shanghai, that young man wearing a us supplus M41 jacket.

 

[Griffon_301]

found in a great book I picked up in my antique book shop yesterday...
seems to be a B-6 jacket in its natural habitat, a pre war USAAC fighter cockpit....

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

On the background is Broadway mansion,Shanghai.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

General Ridgway wearing his A2 as wind shirt.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

FSSF men at Anzio

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

French SAS (1st RPiMa)

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

This incident was recorded by Gunther Rall in his book, both sides were behaving in gentlemen’s way. But Rall didn’t know what happened next.

During 2010s , a gentleman live in Ukraine found out the fate of that soviet pilot, Yakov Antonov later escaped from German guards and sadly get killed when he was attempting to cross the line.

 

[Enigma1938]

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Im looking for that type of jacket since years with no luck yet.
There's another photo with Mölders and another Pilot both wearing the same jackets, so there must have been at least a few exemplars back then.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Im looking for that type of jacket since years with no luck yet.
There's another photo with Mölders and another Pilot both wearing the same jackets, so there must have been at least a few exemplars back then.

I have seen that pic, they were hunting.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

A Soviet vet who has fought in Kurskaya and Berlin

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

This hundred years old lady served as a sniper instructor during the war, she has trained 26 snipers.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Josef Wurmheller

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Egon Mayer, there is story said, he was the one almost shot down Robert Johnson.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Douglas Budd and Galland