Work and Flight Attire
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Battle Jacket with
Slacks
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Work Coveralls
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front view with closed collar
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back view
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Flying Suits
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Flight Suit:
Men's Suit, Summer, Flying, AN-S-31A
Helmet: Type A-8
Goggle: AN-6530
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Flight Suit:
Men's Suit, Summer, Flying, AN
6550-AN-S-31
Helmet: Type A-11 intermediate
Goggle: B-8
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Type A-2 Leather Jacket, Type
A-4 Summer Flying Suit
Parachute Bag
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The wearing of AAF leather jackets
like the Type B-6 and the
Type A-2
(as shown in the picture above)
were popular among the WASP.
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Type B-6
The Type B-6 jacket was designed
as intermediate (lightweight) shearling outfit. Significnt were the slash
pockets on each side of the zipper on its lower front.
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Back View
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Intermediate Flying Suit
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The WASP in the picture wears
Type A-16 shoes
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Label Type B-16 Jacket
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The intermediate flying suit for WASP was
standarized in May 1944. It consisted of a Type B-16 jacket and A-12 trousers.
This suit resembled the Type B-17 jacket and
A-13 trousers worn by flight nurses and the intermediate suit worn by male
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Type B-16 jacket
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Collar closed with storm tab.
Note: The pencil pocket on the
left sleeve has only one compartment while the pencil pocket of the men's
B-15 has two.
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Heavy Winter Shearling Flying
Suit
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WASP wore the men's Type B-3 shearling jacket
and Type A-3 shearling trousers as high altitude uniform. The winter flying
helmet Type B-6 was common headgear with this outfit.
Additionally, WASP and flight nurses received
Type A-16 shearling overshoes which were very similar to the Type A-6 men's
shoes but were smaller in size.
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S-1 Seat-Type Parachute
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Goggle: AN-6530
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[ I. Development ]..[
II. Facts about the WASP ]..[
III. Uniforms ]..[
IV. Sources ]
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