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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

Author:	PbyCat-Guy [ Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:45 pm ]
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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

Author:	Django [ Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:49 pm ]
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Try a search in the main hangar there are some threads there.

Author:	Fleet16b [ Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:34 am ]
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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

Author:	Firebird [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:00 pm ]
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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

Author:	RyanShort1 [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:35 pm ]
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Firebird wrote: 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

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Author:	tom d. friedman [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:41 pm ]
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don't get anything airbrushed. all ww2 jacket art was hand painted in oil based paint.

Author:	bdk [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:48 pm ]
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An artist I knew used Testors model paint in those little square bottles. 16 years later it is still stuck on there.

Author:	Johnny Signor [ Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:49 am ]
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PbyCat-Guy wrote: 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

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