Original U.S. WWII B-17 Flying Fortress 535th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket Category_MG 34 Pistol Grip Assembly Truly and exceptional and rare

Truly and exceptional and rare grouping of a young college graduate officer that served as an engineer during and after the great war

On 23 February

“RZM 1197/38 SS”

In this manner the all-ways fuze was armed in flight and the grenade exploded on impact

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Flying Fortress 535th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket Category_MG 34 Pistol Grip Assembly Truly and exceptional and rareOriginal Item: One of a kind. The 535th bomb squadron was part of the 381st Bomb Group that flew B 17 Flying Fortresses from Ridgewell, Essex England between June 1943 and April 1945. The Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations, the first for bombing shipyards at Bremen, whilst under heavy attack, on 8 October 1943 and the second was awarded to the 1st Bomb Division as a whole for flying without fighter protection to bomb aircraft factories