Original U.S. WWII P-38 Lightning Pilot A-2 Flight Jacket - 337th Fighter Squadron Display Guns & Parts Sets forward artillery observers

forward artillery observers

The signal pistol is marked with the serial number 24666 on the forward lower portion of the right hand side of the frame

It is positioned over the code for the Spitzer firm

The red brick stables were converted to barracks to house prisoners when the site was converted to a POW camp in October 1939

entering service in September 1944

Original U.S. WWII P-38 Lightning Pilot A-2 Flight Jacket - 337th Fighter Squadron Display Guns & Parts Sets forward artillery observersOriginal Items: One of a kind set. This wonderful condition A 2 flight jacket belonged to 2nd Lieutenant George Roger Cohan who flew a Lockheed P 38 Lightning during World War Two as a member of the 337th Fighter Squadron, 3rd Air Force. The 337th Fighter Squadron was activated in 1942 in Keflavik, Iceland, equipped with Lockheed P 38 Lightnings. Mission was to intercept and destroy German planes that on occasion attempted to attack Iceland or that