Tuskegee Airman flight jacket worn by Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Crockett

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/630399932ec780c987da4c9693137289

Title

Tuskegee Airman flight jacket worn by Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Crockett

Creator

Aero Leather Clothing Co., American
Woodrow W. Crockett, American, 1918 - 2012
Tuskegee Airmen, 1941 - 1946
100th Fighter Squadron, American, 1942 - 1945

Date

1942

Description

A Type A-2 leather Tuskegee Airman jacket worn by Woodrow W. Crockett. The jacket is dark brown leather with a fabric lining. It has a snap-flap patch pocket on either size of the zipper at waist level with knit cuffs and waistband. On the left breast are three stitched patches. The uppermost is a rectangular leather patch with dark stamped letters reading [W. W. CROCKETT], the middle patch is also leather and rectangular and embossed with the US Army Air Forces pilot insignia, two feathered wings extending from a striped shield. Below this is a very faded painted leather patch whose decoration was once the insignia for the USAAF 100th Fighter Squadron, a winged feline perched on top of a globe. The paint is considerably deteriorated but remnants of the design in red, white, blue, yellow and brown paint are visible. On the PL shoulder is another circular patch, originally the emblem of the 15th Air Force. It is also significantly chipped but features a blue background beneath a white star with an embedded red circle and yellow wings. The number 15 appears between the wings. Across the back shoulders of the jacket is an oval area with stitching holes, indicating another patch, now missing, had been fixed there at some point.

Subject

WW II
Tuskegee Airmen
Aeronautics
Clothing and dress
Military
World War, 1939-1945
100th Fighter Squadron
Aero Leather Clothing Co
Crockett, Woodrow W
African Americans
African American
World War II

Source

Smithsonian Institution

Relation

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAAHC-2012_43_1_001

References

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=nmaahc_2012.43.1&repo=DPLA

Subject

WW II
Tuskegee Airmen
Clothing and dress
Military
World War, 1939-1945
100th Fighter Squadron
Aero Leather Clothing Co
Crockett, Woodrow W
African Americans
African American
World War II

Citation

Aero Leather Clothing Co., American et al., “Tuskegee Airman flight jacket worn by Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Crockett,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed August 15, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/27738.

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