Original U.S. WWII Army Air Force M1 Armor Flyer Flak Vest Uniforms Museum quality ethnographic piece

Museum quality ethnographic piece

During that same timeframe

Kamphausen Germany

One side of the blade reads IN HONOR OF

Original U.S. WWII Army Air Force M1 Armor Flyer Flak Vest Uniforms Museum quality ethnographic pieceOriginal Item: Only One Available. During WW2 in the US Army Air Corps, bomber crews often returned from missions over NSDAP occupied Europe reporting extremely dense flak, each burst spraying the aircraft with hot shrapnel. Following the experience of the Royal Air Force, the Air Corps began issuing flak jackets to aircrews in 1942. These early flak jackets were heavy, consisting of steel plates sown into multi layered nylon that would catch low