Original U.S. WWII B-17 Touch the Button Nell 535th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket Lock Assembly It is marked faintly on

It is marked faintly on the lock Mre

Evidently blue caps were substituted for the red ones on the 1-sec

Fields downing an ME-190 over the lines

There is also an original hand painted Signal Corps crossed flags insignia to the front

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Touch the Button Nell 535th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket Lock Assembly It is marked faintly onOriginal Item: One of a kind. This jacket was featured on page 131 of the wonderful book AMERICAN FLIGHT JACKETS by Jon A. Maguire and John P. Conway considered by many to be the bible of flight jacket collecting. A full color printed gloss paper copy of page 131 is included with the purchase of this jacket. Wallace D. Beckman was an air gunner with the 535th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bombardment Group of the 8th Air Force in the E. T. O. during WWII. His