This jacket is not what the seller claims it is. The Doolittle Raid occurred on 18th April 1942 and the contract for the Perry Sportswear 42-16175-P was placed on 23rd May 1942. This jacket might have belonged to someone who survived the raid, and placed the 17th BG patch on it but it could not have been worn on the raid itself. Perhaps it was his replacement A2?
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