Original U.S. WWII 398th Bomb Squadron 20th Air Force Painted B-15 Flight Jacket “Stan” - Size 34 British Flags while the butt stock has

while the butt stock has the bent steel type

and so they also contracted out various orders to gun manufacturers of the time

Joseph Thwaits is a known gun maker in the Somerset city of Bath

There are some additional markings on the front support

Original U.S. WWII 398th Bomb Squadron 20th Air Force Painted B-15 Flight Jacket “Stan” - Size 34 British Flags while the butt stock hasOriginal Item. One of a Kind. This is a tremendous painted B 15 flight jacket worn by a Stan in the 398th Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force. The front of the jacket has a heavily worn hand painted 398th insignia, an elephant clutching a bomb in its trunk as it falls toward the Earth. The right sleeve of the jacket has a gorgeously painted 20th Air Force insignia over Tinian, an island in the Northern Mariana Islands on