US Navy Authentic G-1 War Eagles Sub Patrol Leather Aviator Jacket Brown SZ 48

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Seller: Top-Rated Seller rainbow_jakk ✉️ (612) 100%, Location: 150 Mile House, CA, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 145117114494 US Navy Authentic G-1 War Eagles Sub Patrol Leather Aviator Jacket Brown SZ 48. For sale in our store is an iconic US Navy flight goat hide leather jacket from between 1968 - 1971. This iconic piece of US Navy history is from the prestigous squadrons known as VP-8 and VP-16 which were active in the area of the Atlantic Ocean and beyond. The time period includes the Vietnam War and these squadrons were important for homeland protection against the threat of Soviet nuclear submarines and other possible threats. It comes with three patches and a removable leather name patch. (See pictures)  The true color of the jacket is the main picture, the lining is also a darker color than shown in the pictures. "This iconic jacket comes in excellent pre-owned condition. There are some holes in the sleeve cuff ribbing, one signicant hole on the inside of the right sleeve ribbing. There are multiple small holes on the waistband ribbing as well as some wear on the edge of the waistband ribbing. There was a patch just above the name badge that was removed so there are some needle holes, with a few small scratches left in the leather. Over all this jacket is in amazing condition." Star Sportswear Mfg, Co. Model Type - G-1 MIL-J-7823D(WP) Age - 1968 - 1971  Material - Goatskin The jacket is tagged size 48 and measures: 50.8 cm's (20 inches) shoulder to shoulder 64.8 cm's (25 1/2 inches) arm pit to arm pit 54.6 cm's (21 1/2 inches) sleeve in seam 62.3 cm's (24 1/2 inches) collar to hemline 67.4 cm's (26 1/2 inches) sleeve, shoulder to cuff 59.1 cm's (23 1/4 inches) side seam to side seam, at waist Weight: 1 kg 760 grams (3 lbs 14 oz's) Name patch descriptions: 1) Patrol Squadron 16  - War Eagles - Patrol Squadron 16 (VP-16)

Patrol Squadron SIXTEEN was commissioned at NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida in May 1946 as Naval Air Reserve Training Squadron VP-ML-56 and equipped with six PBY "Catalina" amphibians.  Redesignated Patrol Squadron 741 in 1949, the squadron continued to operate in reserve status.  With the outbreak of hostilities in Korea in 1951, the squadron's Catalina aircraft were replaced with Lockheed P2V-2 "Neptune" patrol bombers.   In February of 1953, the squadron was re-designated Patrol Squadron SIXTEEN and became a part of the active duty Navy.  During their colorful history, the "War Eagles" have performed operations on both east and west coasts, and throughout the world.  These activities included Operation Springboard, various UNITAS exercises around South America, Counter Drug operations in the Caribbean, Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) patrols in the North Atlantic, ASW/Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW) patrols in the Mediterranean, and Overland operations in the Balkans.  In 1961, VP-16 was part of the Project Mercury Space Capsule Recovery Force.  A VP-16 Neptune was the first aircraft over Lt. Col. John H. Glenn's "Friendship Seven" capsule after splashdown.   The War Eagles transitioned to the Lockheed P-3A "Orion" in 1964, and then integrated the P-3C Aircraft Improvement Program (AIP) with advanced sensors and communications capabilities.  The Orion was unequaled in its ability to locate, track, and if required attack hostile submarines beneath the waves.  The War Eagles, with their Maritime Patrol sister squadrons have successfully demonstrated their preeminent capabilities in every ocean of the world.  Similarly, the squadron has fully exploited the P-3C's exceptional command and control capabilities for "special operations missions" involving exercises of Navy SEALS and other Special Forces.

2) Patron - 8 (VP-8)

Patrol Squadron (VP) 8 was commissioned as VP-201 in September 1942 in Norfolk, Virginia. During World War II, VP-201 flew the sea-based PBM Mariner aircraft, combating German submarines that threatened Allied shipping throughout the Atlantic. In June 1947, the squadron completed a homeport change to Quonset Point, Rhode Island and transitioned to the land-based P-2V Neptune aircraft. The squadron was renamed to VP-8 in September 1948, and in October 1962, VP-8 became the first operational P-3 Orion squadron in the U.S. Navy.

VP-8 operated the venerable P-3 above every ocean for over 50 years, earning a reputation as one of the best Maritime Patrol Aviation (MPA) squadrons. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, VP-8 demonstrated the P-3's superior Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW) capabilities by tracking Soviet submarines in the Caribbean and Eastern Atlantic. Later that decade, VP-8 flew combat missions throughout Southeast Asia in support of the Vietnam War. The squadron conducted a homeport change to Naval Air Station (NAS) Brunswick, Maine in 1971.  

3) U.S. Naval Station Argentia NFLD

The US Navy had come to Argentia as part of the Anglo-American “destroyers-for-bases” deal, sealed in an exchange of notes on 2 September 1940, that saw 50 surplus destroyers and other war materials traded to Great Britain in exchange for 99-year leases on strategically located base areas in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British Caribbean. France had just fallen and the United States and Canada were scrambling to shore up the Atlantic approaches to North America. Newfoundland’s proximity to North Atlantic shipping lanes and its emerging place in the Great Circle Route in transatlantic aviation made it vital to the war e ff ort and the defence of the western hemisphere. Should Britain be occupied, and the Royal Navy fall into the hands of Hitler’s Germany, many in North America feared that the Atlantic moat would not be su ffi cient protection. In 1940, the US Navy was still a one-ocean navy, with its warships concentrated in the Pacific.

The urgency of the historical moment was felt at the highest levels of the US government. In his message to Congress announcing the destroyers-for-bases deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested that it was an “epochal and far-reaching act of preparation for continental defence in face of grave danger.” For good measure, Roosevelt added that the deal represented the most important event in the defence of the United States since Thomas Je ff erson’s purchase of Louisiana in 1803. Air and sea bases like the one at Argentia would be North America’s first line of defence against German aggression. “The world had narrowed,” wrote journalist Hanson W. Baldwin in the New York Times  a few months earlier. “Airplanes span oceans and continents, leap the seas that once were barriers.”

The United States appointed Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade to head a Board of Experts to determine the precise base locations in all the host territories. The British wanted the bases to be located as far expected political influence of the US. In the case of Newfoundland, the Canadians also wanted to steer the Americans away from Conception Bay and the vital iron mines of Bell Island. Greenslade arrived in Newfoundland waters on the cruiser USS St. Louis  days after the exchange of notes, inquiring into local weather conditions and local maps. After aerial reconnaissance and some negotiation, the base locations were quickly agreed to and he departed for the Caribbean. A second agreement, the Leased Bases Agreement, signed in London in March 1941, set out the legal status of all the leased areas in terms of criminal jurisdiction, customs duties, and other important matters.

As these were still peacetime bases, as the US did not enter the away as possible from capital cities or major population centres, so as to limit the war until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, they were built with all of the modern conveniences: indoor plumbing, cinemas, golf courses, social clubs, recreational facilities, hospitals, and radio stations. They were self-contained, even plush, at least compared to the more rudimentary facilities being erected by the Canadians who were already at war. Many have suggested that by war’s end, the US bases influenced Newfoundland building styles and popular culture. Newfoundland Governor Humphrey Walwyn reported that the permanent buildings erected by the US were “admirably built” and “attractive in appearance.” He thought that, while they “are built on a scale and of materials beyond the reach of the average citizen, they do present models at first hand for him to aspire and copy.” For many, the US bases symbolized modernity — an association that continued into the 1950s with the building of large modern apartment blocks like Argentia’s “Q.” Su ffi ce it to say here that, almost overnight, the US bases became one of the four pillars of Newfoundland’s economy with fish, forests, and mines.

While the wartime influx of US and Canadian servicemen into Newfoundland has generated considerable scholarship, there has been relatively little attention paid to what happened next. The bases continued to be an integral part of continental defence in the face of the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Technological change, however, meant that the threat shifted from Soviet bombers to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarines by the 1960s. One by one, the air bases at Pepperrell (1961) and Harmon (1966) closed, as did the naval complex at Argentia over an extended period (1969–1994). As the nature of modern warfare changed, these base closures were part of a global realignment of the US armed forces that followed the Korean and Vietnam wars, as well as during the brief thaw in the Cold War that occurred in the mid-1960s. One source estimated that the US shuttered 1,400 military facilities, large and small, between 1961 and 1976. The closure of the US bases in Newfoundland was therefore part of a much wider story of military realignment and socio-economic, political, and environmental upheaval. “Military bases, like installations or facilities of any major corporation, sometimes grow obsolete,” explained William J. Sheehan, D

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  • Condition: "This iconic jacket comes in excellent pre-owned condition. There are some holes in the sleeve cuff ribbing, one signicant hole on the inside of the right sleeve ribbing. There are multiple small holes on the wiastband ribbing as well as some wear on the edge of the waistband ribbing. There was a patch just above the name badge that was removed so there are some needle holes, with a few small scratches left in the leather. Over all this jacket is in amazing condition."
  • Brand: Star Sportswear Mfg. Co.
  • Size Type: Regular
  • Sleeve Length: Long Sleeve
  • Occasion: Collectable
  • Decade: Late 1960's early 1970's
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Material: Leather
  • Size (Men's): 48
  • Look: Military
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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