mulceber
Moderator
So, my understanding about re-dying, from what I've picked up here (and I could have totally misunderstood something) was that jackets were re-dyed during the war when someone had died (or been critically injured, I guess) and his gear was judged to be in good enough condition to be re-issued. But I was reading in Gary Eastman's book, and found that he says redying was a phenomenon after the war when the US government tried to get whatever use they could get out of jackets that had never been dyed, but didn't like the fact that the old russet A-2s had been prone to staining. I thought my initial understanding of redyes must have been completely wrong, but then I've recently seen people talking about war-time redyes, which don't seem to be what Eastman is talking about - I can't imagine the AAF cared that much what jackets looked like while the war was on. So I thought I'd ask the internet's flight jacket brain trust what the situation was with jacket re-dyes.