Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
Americans were smaller then................
Some years ago I was in the National Museum of American Jewish Military History in Washington DC, and looked at a WW II flight jacket. As I understand it, you needed a college degree to be a pilot in the USAAF, so this wouldn't have been made for the malnourished. It was small. Even when I was young and fit, I wouldn't have got close to getting it on, and I'm of average height. Everybody has got bigger, and really bigger, not just fatter, as I have.