Original U.S. WWII B-24 SPLASH Radio Operator 785th Bomb Squadron Named and Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Royal Air Force Lo break-through and in August

Lo break-through and in August helped close the Falaise Gap

then shelled shipping and shore installations at Truk 29 April – 30 April

photographs were used to establish the size and the characteristic launching mechanisms for both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket

coupled with Army's pilots and aircrews lack of training in shipboard operations

There is also a unit marking on the front of the helmet

Original U.S. WWII B-24 SPLASH Radio Operator 785th Bomb Squadron Named and Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Royal Air Force Lo break-through and in AugustOriginal Item: One of a kind. Technical Sargent Norman Boehm, ASN 15121335, was a radio operator of the B 24 Liberator (# 42 52510) SPLASH, crew number 533 (Pilot Morgan Cox) which was assigned to the 785th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. Norman completed 32 mission combat runs between June 1944 and Auust 1944. In addition to using his plane's nose art he personalized his A 2 jacket with he and his wife's nicknames "Haze and