Original U.S. WWII B-24 SPLASH Radio Operator 785th Bomb Squadron Named and Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Royal Air Force Upon arriving the 513th PIR

Upon arriving the 513th PIR and the other elements of the 17th Airborne Division were attached to Patton's Third U

the period of the main offensive at Pozieres

NEW MODEL 1859

Lo break-through and in August helped close the Falaise Gap

There is also a unit marking on the front of the helmet

Original U.S. WWII B-24 SPLASH Radio Operator 785th Bomb Squadron Named and Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Royal Air Force Upon arriving the 513th PIROriginal Item: One of a kind. Technical Sargent Norman Boehm, ASN 15121335, was a radio operator of the B 24 Liberator (# 42 52510) SPLASH, crew number 533 (Pilot Morgan Cox) which was assigned to the 785th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. Norman completed 32 mission combat runs between June 1944 and Auust 1944. In addition to using his plane's nose art he personalized his A 2 jacket with he and his wife's nicknames "Haze and