Original U.S. WWII B-17 Touch the Button Nell 535th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket Brown Bess The Tower stands 18 inches

The Tower stands 18 inches tall and on the top is a clever screw assembly that allows the plane to screw into it an an angle making the plane appear as if it ascending on a bank turn over the tower itself

issued to the Heer (Army)

The center of the lid is engraved with an aviator insignia

the second the ventilated central Face Guard and the third being the complete facial surround

- Original metal star applied to front

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Touch the Button Nell 535th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket Brown Bess The Tower stands 18 inchesOriginal Item: One of a kind. This jacket was featured on page 131 of the wonderful book AMERICAN FLIGHT JACKETS by Jon A. Maguire and John P. Conway considered by many to be the bible of flight jacket collecting. A full color printed gloss paper copy of page 131 is included with the purchase of this jacket. Wallace D. Beckman was an air gunner with the 535th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bombardment Group of the 8th Air Force in the E. T. O. during WWII. His