# Flight jacket ID

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-jacket-id/823466 "2018-10-24T23:31:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-jacket-id/823466/1 "2018-10-24T23:31:43Z")

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Robert Taylor is wearing [this flight jacket](https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/ZUJ-19401227-brt-g90-475) in _Flight Command_ (1940). I’m not familiar with pre-war jackets. It kind of looks like a USAAF A-2, but the pockets are different and it has lapels. It’s obviously not a Navy G-1. I _think_ I’ve seen a pre-war Navy jacket that looks like it, but I’m not finding it now. ID please?

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**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-jacket-id/823466/2 "2018-10-24T23:46:06Z")

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My semi-informed opinion based on a bunch of Google searches: It’s a prop, a fashion jacket with a name patch sewed on it for legitimacy.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-jacket-id/823466/3 "2018-10-25T00:14:11Z")

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> [@Pork\_Rind](#):
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> My semi-informed opinion based on a bunch of Google searches: It’s a prop, a fashion jacket with a name patch sewed on it for legitimacy.

I’ve just found [this thread](https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/real-usn-pre-ww-ii-flight-jacket.89570/), and it seems they agree with you. I’ll note this post:

> [@](#):
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> Looks like a 1930’s civil flight jacket style. The back is interesting. Civil patterns influenced military ones and visa versa.