Original U.S. WWII 313th Fighter Squadron GNAZI GNIGHTMARE II Named A-2 Flight Jacket Madsen LMG During combat

During combat

STOSSGESCHÜTZT which indicates manufacture by Junghans

powder and projectile were loaded from the muzzle

Carlson had been a soldier in the Punitive Expedition to capture Pancho Villa in Mexico and World War I

including occupied Europe

Original U.S. WWII 313th Fighter Squadron GNAZI GNIGHTMARE II Named A-2 Flight Jacket Madsen LMG During combatOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is an exceptional A2 leather flight jacket issued to a Lieutenant A. S. COAKUM who was a pilot in the 9th Air Force, 50th Fighter Group, 313th Fighter Squadron. We have not been able to find research on Coakum, but this fighter group did participate in the D Day invasion and the jacket credits the owner with a downed Focke Wulf Fw 190 on June 6th, 1944. During World War Two the 313th Fighter Squadron was established