kelly heroes costume

[p51]

Well, it also has much shorter epaulets, but nobody else has tried to make this intentionally.
A2s have epaulets with box stitching at the shoulders and no snaps for them (and snaps covered by the facings on the patch pockets) on the USAAF contracts. The movie jacket had a lot of differences like that, and others.

 

[nightowl12020]

I haven't researched these types of jackets, I mostly do 19th Century reproductions myself. For WWII uniforms, a company called What Price Glory does a fairly decent job of reproducing items. I haven't looked at their stuff for a while but it's worth a look. Also E bay has things show up from time to time.

 

[JW Foust]

The jacket in your link is way too light for Oddball's jacket. This jacket, Men Type A-2 Repro Real Leather Brown Aviator flying Pilot Jacket is the closest in colour and this one, MEN'S TYPE A2 BRONCO MILITARY FLIGHT REAL GOATSKIN LEATHER JACKET is the next best match.

Conditioner or leather dye can take of that.

 

[Sliper8]

I haven't researched these types of jackets, I mostly do 19th Century reproductions myself. For WWII uniforms, a company called What Price Glory does a fairly decent job of reproducing items. I haven't looked at their stuff for a while but it's worth a look. Also E bay has things show up from time to time.

thanks but a lot of the gear in the movie is actually post war civilian or movie studio stuff so its hard to track down

 

[Sliper8]

Well, it also has much shorter epaulets, but nobody else has tried to make this intentionally.
A2s have epaulets with box stitching at the shoulders and no snaps for them (and snaps covered by the facings on the patch pockets) on the USAAF contracts. The movie jacket had a lot of differences like that, and others.

yeah also the buttons should be black. also pockets possibly too small

 

[p51]

I watched Kelly's heroes yesterday for the first time in a long while.
General Colt's "tanker" jacket has epaulets, more like a wool-lined cotton L2 flight jacket from the 50s.
The GIs also use Serbian leather ammo pouches on a sling, nothing anyone used in WW2, though...

I saw leather slings for the Tommy Guns for a few random weapons. I also noticed that the M1/M1A1 Thompsons get swapped out among actors, sometimes within the same scenes (when the GIs light up the Germans in the truck after the mine field scene, Eastwood's Thompson changes more than once).
Now that I have a M1A1 BFONG, I'm seriously considering getting a couple of 35th ID patches, a M44 pack set and a Serbian ammo pouch set. I have everything else needed!