Want 2 recreat a jacket

[PbyCat-Guy]

Hey there,
I'm looking at recreating an A-2 Jacket for my Grand uncle. He was a navigator with the 870th Bomb Squadron, of the 497th Bomb Group , 20th AF, from Saipan on a B-29. I have a pic of the squadrons patch, but am not sure how to, or if the B-29ers had A-2s.
How do I go about recreating one? I need to know about the most authentic A-2 repos, to leather patches, and what patches were placed on the A-2. Thanks.
BTW, here are the pics to my page about the B-29:
http://www.geocities.com/b29werewolf870/pics.html

[Django]

Try a search in the main hangar there are some threads there.

[Fleet16b]

Best place to try would History Preservation Associates.
They make some of the finest most accurate jackets available.
There is also a link to a website that is soley about A2's

I bought my A2 from them and it is excellent but heads up a high end accurate A2 repro will cost you close to $1000.00

[Firebird]

The best repro A-2's are those from Eastman Leather Clothing here in the UK
http://www.eastmanleather.com/

and the Goodwear Leather Coat Co from Seattle in the USA
http://www.goodwearleather.com/pages/products.html

[RyanShort1]

The best repro A-2's are those from Eastman Leather Clothing here in the UK
http://www.eastmanleather.com/

and the Goodwear Leather Coat Co from Seattle in the USA
http://www.goodwearleather.com/pages/products.html

History Preservation sells and is the US distributor for Eastman Leather - and yes, they are the best. I've got one and I've had a number of vets including the Doolittle Raiders mention that it's "just like my old jacket." I even had a vet offer to buy it.

Ryan

[tom d. friedman]

don't get anything airbrushed. all ww2 jacket art was hand painted in oil based paint.

[bdk]

An artist I knew used Testors model paint in those little square bottles. 16 years later it is still stuck on there.

[Johnny Signor]

Hey there,
I'm looking at recreating an A-2 Jacket for my Grand uncle. He was a navigator with the 870th Bomb Squadron, of the 497th Bomb Group , 20th AF, from Saipan on a B-29. I have a pic of the squadrons patch, but am not sure how to, or if the B-29ers had A-2s.
How do I go about recreating one? I need to know about the most authentic A-2 repos, to leather patches, and what patches were placed on the A-2. Thanks.
BTW, here are the pics to my page about the B-29:
http://www.geocities.com/b29werewolf870/pics.html

Not sure if you ever got your jacket figured out, if not you should try to find a current web page site for the 497th Bomb Group and ask thier historain about what type jackets they wore and photos of them , it would be the best way to recreate the jacket .
Johnny