Eric Hartmann Leather Flying Jacket

Description

Eric Hartmann Leather Flying Jacket

• material – 100% buffalo hide
• fully lined
• two lower pockets
• two zipped breast pockets
• one inside pocket
• waist adjustment buckles

WW2 German Luftwaffe pilots jacket based on the one worn by German Fighter ace Eric Hartmann, heres more about Herr Hartmann from Wikipedia

Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993), nicknamed “Bubi” by his comrades and “The Black Devil” by his Soviet adversaries, was a German fighter pilot during World War II and is the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions. He claimed, and was credited with, shooting down 352 Allied aircraft—345 Soviet and 7 American—while serving with the Luftwaffe. During the course of his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his damaged fighter 14 times due to damage received from parts of enemy aircraft he had just shot down or mechanical failure. Hartmann was never shot down or forced to land due to enemy fire.^[1]