Original U.S. WWII CBI C-46 C-47 B-25 Pilot Distinguished Flying Cross Recipient Captain Arthur Leigh Stevens’ A2 Flight Jacket with Blood-Chit & Theater-Made Leather Patches - Named “Dead Reckoning” Flight Calculator & Ephemera British Flare Guns also named Eli Whitney

also named Eli Whitney

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This is a helmet originally made as an M1917A1 Kelly that was reissued and repainted at the outbreak of WW2 for use in the Civil Defense program

and the leather sweatband shows some age

Original U.S. WWII CBI C-46 C-47 B-25 Pilot Distinguished Flying Cross Recipient Captain Arthur Leigh Stevens’ A2 Flight Jacket with Blood-Chit & Theater-Made Leather Patches - Named “Dead Reckoning” Flight Calculator & Ephemera British Flare Guns also named Eli WhitneyOriginal Items. One of a Kind Set. This is the outstanding A2 Flight Jacket group of Pilot Captain Arthur Leigh Stevens, who flew C 46s, C 47s, and B 25s in the China, Burma, India theater and conducted well over 300 hours of operational flight during the war, being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on August 10th, 1944. His Jacket has a tremendous leather American flag patch and Chinese Blood Chit stitched to the back along with great patches on