Original U.S. WWII USAAF Early Pattern M1 Flyers Protective Armor Flak Vest Jacket with Apron Category_Blunderbuss Handmade blade signed semi round

Handmade blade signed semi round tang

Generally two such Barracks Bags were issued to each soldier

COLE research tell sus that he was a member of the 164th Field Artillery Brigade

Jan-Jun 1944

Jordan passed in 2007 and his obituary can be found at this link

Original U.S. WWII USAAF Early Pattern M1 Flyers Protective Armor Flak Vest Jacket with Apron Category_Blunderbuss Handmade blade signed semi roundOriginal Item: Only One Available. During WW2 in the US Army Air Corps, bomber crews often returned from missions over NSDAP occupied Europe reporting extremely dense flak, each burst spraying the aircraft with hot shrapnel. Following the experience of the Royal Air Force, the Air Corps began issuing flak jackets to aircrews in 1942. These early flak jackets were heavy, consisting of steel plates sown into multi layered nylon that would catch low