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15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie »

15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 4
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A period standard issue B-10 USAAF flight jacket. The jacket belonged to « S/Sgt George A. Setser », Aerial Gunner aboard « Hangar Annie », 15th Air Force, 484th Bomb Group, 825th Bomb Squadron. « Hangar Annie » was based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy. The jacket is in nice combat used and worn condition. The front retains its full factory applied and functional zipper manufactured by « CONMAR ». The airmen name and bomb wings in leather along with the unit patch is nicely machine straight stitched on the upper left front. Rarer light coloured fur collar is complete and in very good condition. Waist band and cuffs are original to the jacket but show nice everyday use. The back of the jacket retains a large oval hand painted image of « HANGAR ANNIE ». A pin up inspired painted featuring a voluptuous model with short brown hair and blue eyes. It is period stitched right through the jacket. Some minor folding and wear marks but the artwork remains in really good overall condition. Partial ASN printed inside the jacket « S-3104 ». Manufactured tag is present and slightly readable. Overall a really nice and unique B-10 named and identified jacket. The Fifteenth Air Force drew its operational forces from heavy bombers of the IX Bomber Command, the strategic bomber command of the Ninth Air Force which was relocating to the United Kingdom to become a tactical air force in the European Theater of Operations, the Twelfth Air Force, and by a diversion of groups originally intended for the Eighth Air Force. Mainly operating out of bases in southern Italy, the Fifteenth Air Force, along with the Eighth Air Force and RAF Bomber Command, became the instruments used by the Allies to carry the strategic air offensive to Axis occupied Europe and Germany.


https://484th.org/Aircraft/PDFs/Aircraft%20Spreadsheet.pdf


http://www.15thaf.org/49th_BW/484th_BG/Torretta%20Flyer/TF24/PDF/TF24.pdf

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15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 6
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 7
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 8
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 9
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 10
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 11
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 12
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 13
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 14
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 15
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 16
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 17
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 18
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 19
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 20
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 21
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 22
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 23
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 24
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 25
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 26
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 27
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 28
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 29
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 30
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 31
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 32
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 33
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 34
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 35
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 36
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 37
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 38
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 39
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 40
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 41
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 42
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 43
15th USAAF named and identified B-10 flight jacket, S/Sgt. George A. Setser, « Hangar Annie » - photo 44

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