Opinion 13th Bomb Squadron M43 Field Jacket
Article about: Hi all, I recently acquired this m43 jacket belonging to the 13th bomb squadron. No name to the jacket, however what I can make out is that he served in the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces d
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While I cannot give a supper detailed assessment on the originality of the jacket as a whole, I can say that it doesn’t give me a great feeling when i look at your pictures. The patches look a little newly added to me, especially the Mediterranean patch.
As far as aircrew wearing field jackets, i feel like it was fairly common, but they usually wore their flight jackets somewhat as a status symbol. I’ve seen and owned a few field jackets with squadron patches and seen many period pictures of them as well.
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