Original U.S. WWII 7th Fighter Squadron P-38 Lightning Pilot Flight Jacket Grouping Category_Spade Grip Assembly the RAF decided it didn't

the RAF decided it didn't need many inland fighter bases and was happy to lease most of them to the United States as airfields for heavy bombers

He was assigned to Company I of the 180th Infantry

and has not been modified from the original issue configuration

and saw service until the war ended in 1945

each set is British military marked

Original U.S. WWII 7th Fighter Squadron P-38 Lightning Pilot Flight Jacket Grouping Category_Spade Grip Assembly the RAF decided it didn'tOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a fantastic grouping which includes a hand painted A2 leather flight jacket issued to Lieutenant Robert G. Cooper who was a P 38 Lightning pilot that served in the Pacific Theater with 7th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group during WWII and participated in the Liberation of the Philippines as well as missions over Japan. The 7th Fighter Squadron origins date to 16 January 1941, when it was activated as Selfridge