Original U.S. WWII 8th Air Force Painted B-3 style Sheepskin Jacket Martini-Henry Bayonets but no battle followed

but no battle followed

The gun was an adaptation of a French Hotchkiss

The Mk V was designed to use an Enfield rifle sling

Kirschbaum & Co

Fully described on Pages 232-233 of David Harding's Small Arms of the East India Company 1600-1856

Original U.S. WWII 8th Air Force Painted B-3 style Sheepskin Jacket Martini-Henry Bayonets but no battle followedOriginal Item: One of a kind. Members of the 8th Air Force bomb crews during WWII generally preferred B 3 Sheepskin jackets over A 2 leather jackets due to their extreme warmth. With a loss of 3 degrees fahrenheit for every thousand feet of altitude, the WWII bomber crews flying at 30,000 feet in the middle of winter needed a seriously warm coat. The B 3 Bomber Jacket came through. First issued on May 8, 1931, for open cockpit altitude flying, the B 3