Bomber Jackets: The Painted Jacket Art of World War II | Military Aviation Museum
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- The Legendary Type A-2 Flying Jacket has become an icon of World War II. Widely personalized by aircrews, and known colloquially as The Bomber Jacket, each and every A-2 that survives has a story to tell us about WWII. Photographer John Slemp has done more to catalog these stories than perhaps anyone else, and several of his remarkable images are being assembled for the first time ever, as a Museum exhibit.
The Military Aviation Museum is honored to host a new exhibit, to celebrate these artistic masterpieces from the war years. Joining a selection of images from Slemp’s book Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art, will be a few real, customized jackets from the museum’s own collection. Each one of the jackets shown represents a cherished family artifact, with no two ever being exactly alike.
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Excited to get a jacket painted with my Uncles old unit...
thanks do we have any idea of the kind of material paintings that were used by these people? Many thanks for the video and all the work
This was great. I’m so happy someone is documenting this. I’ve seen the pics the army did during the war and those are excellent but this is a fantastic project. Keep it up. 👍 I can imagine the fear the crews would have if shot down over Germany. The jackets could kill you. I can understand why they’d stop putting certain things on them. I’m also sure these guys became superstitious as hell wondering why they got lucky and so many others didn’t.
I very much appreciate what you are doing and have a correction to make. The jacket which appears at the 41:05 mark belonged to Stephen M. Hoza who was my father. Dolores was my mother whom he married shortly after the war. She served as an Army nurse in Manila and Tokyo Bay. Steve was the pilot and his and the crew's B-17 was named The War Weary Vulture, hence the bomb carrying vulture over the right pocket. A good name as two of the vultures he flew became war weary and needed to be scrapped due to severe damage. One had over 90 holes in it which included having the main spar sheared in two by an 88mmm shell which did not explode. He flew with the 94th Bomb Group (Square A) out of Roughham Airfield in England and flew the lead bomber before he was finished.
Hello Michael! Thanks so much for the information. The Smithsonian had very little info on the jackets overall. I knew that Delores was his wife's name...I just spaced it during the discussion!
Great work here John, my family and I are honored that my dad, at the time he flew B-17s out of Horham, England with the 95th Bomb Group, Lt. Ernest Anders Erickson's Red Feather A-2 jacket will be in your book. What you are doing is phenomenal and appreciated by anyone interested in the Bomber Boys of 1942-1945. My dad's 'Lili of the Lamplight' (44-6085) jacket shines brightly in your photographs. Looks as cool and young as he was in 1944 when he wore it proudly, as it is mentioned here. Thanks John. Good deal you are doing here Military Aviation Museum featuring the photographer John Slemp's extremely looked forward to project. markerickson.com/Family_History/Ernest_Erickson/r3-3.html
the story about the Dutch is correct it was called the "hongerwinter' a lot of people die of starvation.
At the end of the video, I was asked about famous artist's who may have painted jackets. I was incorrect in my answer, and the correct answer is below.
My work can be seen at www.aerographs.com. Enjoy!
Michael A. Garemko was the flight engineer and top turret gunner on “Heaven Sent,” and did the artwork on the nose and the jackets both.
Harry Holl is the artist who became famous after the war for his ceramic artwork. He painted the “Diabolical Angel” jacket.
what is the url for his website
www.aerographs.com
The URL for the jacket book is www.wwiibomberboys.com. On Sale Now!
Miss NU stands for Miss Nude. Nu is French.
Perhaps a bit of double entendre?