Original U.S. WWII B-17 Flying Fortress 365th Bomb Squadron Named A-2 Flight Jacket Japanese Helmets Just out of the attic

Just out of the attic

This alpha-numeric designator does not commonly appear in wartime documentation

Modern technology have pushed these wonderful helmets into obscurity and they can now only act as reminders of the glorious past

Hawks condemned the charges for what they saw as a Catch-22 military absurdity: the prosecution of front-line troops for killing the enemy

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Flying Fortress 365th Bomb Squadron Named A-2 Flight Jacket Japanese Helmets Just out of the atticOriginal Item: One of a kind. The 365th Bomb Squadron, part of the 305th Bomb Group "Can Do" was established in June 1942 as a B 17 Flying Fortress heavy bombardment unit which trained under the Second Air Force. It deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in September 1942, being assigned to VIII Bomber Command in England. The squadron began flying long range strategic bombardment missions on 17 November 1942 and attacked such targets as