P-47D with Malcolm hood

[Vraciu]

Speaking of Malcolm Hoods.....   Oops. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=Usew0JK7PwA&ebc=ANyPxKoDRhQtpJX6k_TMga_k0luTgRSdVZ102Yq4dVxJmkg3WFfkC1T5EgtEUfgSgCGdZ6IoHDveupYdo5waYvFP3TAjK1Szhw

[Guppy35]

Very cool, thanks Dan.  With that striped prop hub and alternating light/dark on the cowl flaps it must've been a sight in living color.  Add to that the unusual Malcom hood on a Jug and the mental image I get is almost clown car like.   One big, fat clown car, to be sure.

Also, its nice to see another image of a pilot wearing Ray Ban aviator sunglasses with goggles up top of the headgear.  I've been playing around with that look as I work on updating P-38 skins, and wasn't sure how realistic it was.  Do you suppose the goggles fit over the glasses?  I thought the goggles had their own tinted lenses and so sunglasses would be unnecessary but clearly they wore both from this photo evidence.  Maybe at some point during the mission, they took the glasses off and put the goggles down over the eyes?

I have an image of a 51 pilot high over German with his goggles up and sunglasses on.  It may be that the goggles had the orange lenses and the sunglasses the dark green.  They had three different options for their goggles, clear, dark green and the orange tinted.  Might have been the way to have two out of three available without having to changed them out in the goggles.

[Guppy35]

Here ya go Oboe.  High over Germany, this 479th Mustang driver looks the part.

[Guppy35]

My pilot in one of the corners of my history room has the orange tinted B-8 goggles and the green tinted glasses. 

[oboe]

Thanks Dan,

Just noticed the inverted triangular shoulder patch - is that just an AAF patch or is for a particular air force?  I thought 8th and 9th AF patches were circular...

[Guppy35]

Thanks Dan,

Just noticed the inverted triangular shoulder patch - is that just an AAF patch or is for a particular air force?  I thought 8th and 9th AF patches were circular...

12th Air Force.  The jacket belonged to a 340th BG B-25 bombardier.  Replica patch to replace the shredded one I'm trying to preserve.  The jacket was a bit of a wreck but its had some restoration now

[colmbo]

Is that a B-10 jacket?

When I was flying the B-24 I got to fly a wartime B-24 pilot and his family.  He came to the airplane wearing the B-10 jacket that he was wearing when he bailed out of his B-24 over Europe and it had the tear in the back where it snagged going out the hatch.  He also had the wooden utensils he carved to eat with while a POW.

[bozon]

Is Malcolm Hood a relative of Robin & Little Red Riding Hood? 

[Guppy35]

Is that a B-10 jacket?

When I was flying the B-24 I got to fly a wartime B-24 pilot and his family.  He came to the airplane wearing the B-10 jacket that he was wearing when he bailed out of his B-24 over Europe and it had the tear in the back where it snagged going out the hatch.  He also had the wooden utensils he carved to eat with while a POW.

Yep it's a B-10.  Love those jackets.  I have one from a 370th FG P38/51 pilot, and two other not named ones to go with the B-25 guys B-10