Original U.S. WWII Mae West USAAF Pneumatic Life Vest by Firestone - January 1945 British Flare Guns and trained as a pilot

and trained as a pilot

NEW YORK found on left side of frame

The 40th Bombardment Group was part of Operation Matterhorn which was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for the strategic bombing of Japanese forces by B-29 Superfortresses based in India and China

• Tunic (approximately size 38) named and dated December 1st 1942

Original U.S. WWII Mae West USAAF Pneumatic Life Vest by Firestone - January 1945 British Flare Guns and trained as a pilotOriginal Item: Only One Available. During World War II the U. S. aviators and the Royal Air Force servicemen had available to them a vital piece of American made equipment for emergencies that had only been in use for a few years: an inflatable (Mae West) life preserver, courtesy of a man named Peter Markus (1885 1973). Markus developed his invention in the 1920s and received a patent on it in 1928; in 1930 and 1931 he patented some minor changes to