An attractive dark brown leather, issue jacket with russet-brown elastique hem and cuffs. The jacket has a single, functional front zipper with collar snaps, and a hook and eye fastener at the throat (the hook portion is no longer present). The maker label is no longer present, but the construction is consistent with jackets made by the Poughkeepsie Leather Coat Co. The exterior leather is still supple and exhibits only minor wear and flaking along a few of the edge seams, as well as on the forearms and shoulders of the sleeves. There is almost no fraying of the cuff or hem fabric. The jacket is embellished with a large, lozenge-shaped, silk embroidered 8th Bombardment Squadron unit patch on the left breast (a bald eagle grasping the Liberty Bell superimposed on a white, green, and yellow roundel). The back of the jacket has four hand-painted flags in a grid: the Stars and Stripes, ROK Taegeukgi, Union Jack, and UN Flag. Beneath the flags is a falling bomb canted at 45° angle. The paint is heavily flaked, particularly on the Taegeukgi, but the flags are still discernible. The US Air Force decal on the left shoulder is also heavily flaked, but also still discernible. The interior of the jacket has a slightly worn, but intact brown linen lining. The 8th Bombardment Squadron was an element of the 3rd Bombardment Group flying A-26 Invaders on night intruder missions into North Korea. They performed the last ground attack mission of the war prior to the armistice.
