Offered here is a modern production A-2 flight jacket manufactured by Eastman Leather Clothing, a company that “specializes in making extremely authentic, high quality reproductions of WWII vintage flight jackets and accessories.” Their work can be seen in film and television such as George Clooney’s “Catch 22”and LucasFilms’ “Red Tails.” This is a terrific fantasy jacket (size 42) with all the bells and whistles of a highly decorated A-2 jacket. The left chest shows evidence of a name tag and patch having been removed with the current “S. ROSENSTOCK” marked name tag and two-piece leather ace of spade squadron patch (likely for the U.S. Marine squadron VMF-231) subsequently having been added. The lining is ink stamped “ROSENSTOCK” and is hand marked in ink “Bethesda, Md./HQ S-2 501P.I Regt/101st Airborne/Normandy Holland/Bastogne Germany/Austria.” The entire back of the jacket serves as the leather canvas for an extensive painted 8th AF tribute work of art, which includes a tally of sixteen missions, twenty German cities, and eight air-to-air victories with the type of each aircraft listed.

Very fine with most of the wear appearing on the cuffs and waist band. The back of the jacket retains strong and vivid artwork by a highly talented artist. A great fantasy A-2 flight jacket by today's premier maker and featuring fantastic art.