Original U.S. WWII Flying Eight Balls 44th Bomb Group Officer A-2 Flight Jacket Multi Nation Flags Positions for these guns included

Positions for these guns included tail turrets

The Officer's Cross was a pinback cross worn on the lower left chest

The optical bar is ideally made from a material with a low coefficient of thermal expansion so that optical path lengths do not change significantly with temperature

The crossguard retains much silvering and has a fine patination

Original U.S. WWII Flying Eight Balls 44th Bomb Group Officer A-2 Flight Jacket Multi Nation Flags Positions for these guns includedOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is an wonderful A2 leather flight jacket issued to lieutenant in the 44th Bomb Group known as the Flying Eight Balls and each B 24 Liberator it flew was decorated with a winged bomb cartoon of an 8 Ball (pool ball) over which were superimposed eyes and the nose of a bomb in the squadron color. The 44th BG is among the most famous of all WWII Bombardment groups and is notable for the following achievements: First 8th