![]() This jacket evolved through to the D model (which was the last to have a black specification label) before the introduction of the E model in 1971. This was the first to have USN stamped on the wind flap. The MIL-J-7823(AER) which was introduced in 1950 is the ancestor of the G1 still issued today. It retained the USN stamp in white lettering on the back of the collar from the M422a, and was the only G1 to do so. This was the jacket more commonly seen during the Korean War. It shared the hallmarks of the original M422 jacket, but was shorter in the body so that it didn't bunch up when aircrew were sat down. The 55-J-14 was called the G1 on its specification label. In 1947, the US Navy introduced the first G1 jacket which can be correctly named as such: the 55-J-14 jacket. By exception there is sometimes a single squadron badge on the right breast, but not to the level seen on the post war jackets. The M422A jackets and their Second World War compatriots are not commonly seen with patches beyond name, qualification, and service on the left breast. There was also a light weight AN-6551/AN-J-2 and a heavy weight AN-6553/ANJ-4 with the latter being the only one widely adopted by the USAAF. The AN-J-3 (an AN-6552 without a fur collar and made in horsehide) also replaced the Army Air Forces A-2 jacket, although it was not widely issued. In 1942 the M-422A jacket,was replaced by the US Navy by the visually similar AN-6552/AN-J-3A (the latter sometimes being made in horsehide) in an attempt to streamline production between the services as a war economy measure. This jacket shared the double button pocket design and the mouton fur collar of later designs, but was a bulkier cut which was also longer in the body and normally had a salmon red lining. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics on 28th March 1940 as the M-422, the lengthening of the sleeves by one inch, the internal bi-swing elastic increased from 3/4 inch to 1 inch, and 7 lines of stitches added to the collar to add rigidity, warranted the change of spec to M-422A on the 1st October 1941. Navy in the 1930s, originally standardised by the U.S. The G1 jacket can trace its history back to the M-422 jacket, which was brought into use by the U.S. Coast Guard ( i.e., Naval Aviator, Naval Flight Officer, Naval Flight Surgeon, Naval Aircrewman, etc.) and was featured as the leather flight jacket worn by Tom Cruise in the film Top Gun. The G-1 remains a current uniform-issue item in naval aviation for officer and enlisted aviation personnel on flying status in the U.S. A similar jacket used by the United States Army Air Corps/ United States Army Air Forces was usually called the A-2 jacket. The "G-1" military flight jacket is the commonly accepted name for the fur-lined-collar World War II-era leather flight jacket of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. ![]()
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