Original U.S. WWII B-24 SPLASH Radio Operator 785th Bomb Squadron Named and Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Royal Air Force then shelled shipping and shore

then shelled shipping and shore installations at Truk 29 April – 30 April

Upon arriving the 513th PIR and the other elements of the 17th Airborne Division were attached to Patton's Third U

The cap has brass ventilation grommets to each side positioned just below the outer edge of the crown seam

photographs were used to establish the size and the characteristic launching mechanisms for both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket

During 1942 and 1943

Original U.S. WWII B-24 SPLASH Radio Operator 785th Bomb Squadron Named and Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Royal Air Force then shelled shipping and shoreOriginal Item: One of a kind. Technical Sargent Norman Boehm, ASN 15121335, was a radio operator of the B 24 Liberator (# 42 52510) SPLASH, crew number 533 (Pilot Morgan Cox) which was assigned to the 785th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. Norman completed 32 mission combat runs between June 1944 and Auust 1944. In addition to using his plane's nose art he personalized his A 2 jacket with he and his wife's nicknames "Haze and