Famous People in Flight Jackets

[Justhandguns]

I just spotted this, apparently called 'Ambush' and coming out later this year... or next?

 

[thor]

I just spotted this, apparently called 'Ambush' and coming out later this year... or next?

That’s a scene from the 2019 movie “Midway”. It’s actor Aaron Eckhart portraying Jimmy Doolittle in the movie.

 

[MichaelRhB]

This man earned his...

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Uh..actually Stewart was issued the A2 and added the patch of his unit. He did earn his rank. Or at least that was the way it was when I was in the military.

 

[MichaelRhB]

He was also a Liberator pilot if what I read is correct and retired a BG.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Well, again, he was trained to be a pilot and by learning to fly earned his wings and also his Brigadier General rank but his uniform and jacket were issued by supply.

 

[MichaelRhB]

Right, but you didn't get a jacket unless you were aircrew or a high ranking officer. That's my point. He was a pilot. No-rank low-rank airmen didn't just walk over to supply and say "Yeah, and gimme one of those A2 jackets too...!"

 

[Justhandguns]

That’s a scene from the 2019 movie “Midway”. It’s actor Aaron Eckhart portraying Jimmy Doolittle in the movie.

Ah. that's true, I also wondered why he was wearing the Doolittle jacket for a Vietnam movie.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Well during WW2 it was the Army Air Force and they picked up their issued jackets in supply through the Quarter Master.

 

[Turnip]

 

[Turnip]

Erich Hartmann

 

[thor]

USAAF Lieutenant Jacob Beser (1921-1992) wearing his B-10 flight jacket, standing in front of the Enola ***, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that was used to drop the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Beser served as the radar specialist on the Enola ***, monitoring the sensors for the bomb and making sure it didn’t detonate prematurely. Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, Beser performed the same task in a second B-29 Superfortress bomber, Bockscar, in the bombing of Nagasaki with the atomic bomb “Fat Man”. Beser was the only crew member to accompany both atomic bomb missions.

 

[Doctor Damage]

^ excellent stuff, thanks for finding & posting Thor!

 

[Doctor Damage]

celebrity (Ashley Roberts) in her non-replica shearling, nevertheless it appears to be a really good jacket

 

[breezer]

 

[kojax]

jfk

 

[kojax]

 

[thor]

John Travolta in “Welcome back, Kotter” wearing a vintage Gordon & Ferguson M-422a.

 

[thor]

The “King of Cool”

 

[Mister Cairo]

John Lennon (on his last day alive!) December 8, 1980

-dixon cannon

This is a sad one to be sure...