Original Rough Wear 27752

WWII original Aero Leather - #a2jacket

  Acoupla old goats. Goat Dubow, and Doniger - #a2jackets

Captain Morgan A. Griffin, of the 54th Fighter Squadron, 343rd Fighter Group, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

Captain Morgan A. Griffin, of the 54th Fighter Squadron, 343rd Fighter Group, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.  Griffin, a P-38 pilot, is credited with one confirmed aerial victory.   (NA) Remembering the CBI

Capt. Sam Trave, of the 347th Fighter Group, wears a silver “Good Luck” bell from San Michele, Isle of Capri, attached to the collar hook on his unusually dark A-2 jacket.

#a2jacket  381st & 471st (Greenville Army Air Base) squadrons, gunners wingshe 381st patch the Bell of St. Michelle from Capri topped and a silver B-25 pin. On the shoulder, 12th Air Force patch.

Looking back to my time spent with B-17 waist gunner, Frank "Bud" Buschmeier. Frank flew 34 combat missions and on July 29, 1944 was shot down and barely survived being killed by a German civilian (who were extremely fanatic and almost always killed American fly boys that were shot down), luckily two elderly German soldiers  armed with MP-40s took control of the situation. He was a prisoner of war until May, 1 1945 when he was liberated. Read a detailed account of the day he was shot down on his profile at www.theygaveitall.org - #thememoriestrunk