Original U.S. WWII P-51 Mustang Pilot 351st Fighter Squadron Hand Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Madsen LMG - Wartime Photos

- Wartime Photos

Corporal Eli Knudsen

Just this: We have stopped cold everything that has been thrown at us from the North

The serial number is 207658B denoting the year of manufacture as 1886

Original U.S. WWII P-51 Mustang Pilot 351st Fighter Squadron Hand Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Madsen LMG - Wartime PhotosOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is an fantastic A2 leather flight jacket issued to a pilot of a P 51 Mustang in the 351st Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force during WWII. The group flew P 47 Thunderbolts, and from October 1944, P 51 Mustangs, as escorts for bombing missions across occupied Europe and to strafe targets on the ground. Tactical missions included strafing and dive bombing targets during the Allied invasion of Normandy