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Lo break-through and in August helped close the Falaise Gap

The cap has brass ventilation grommets to each side positioned just below the outer edge of the crown seam

Original U.S. WWII B-24 SPLASH Radio Operator 785th Bomb Squadron Named and Painted A-2 Flight Jacket Royal Air Force coupled with Army's pilots andOriginal Item: One of a kind. Technical Sargent Norman Boehm, ASN 15121335, was a radio operator of the B 24 Liberator (# 42 52510) SPLASH, crew number 533 (Pilot Morgan Cox) which was assigned to the 785th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. Norman completed 32 mission combat runs between June 1944 and Auust 1944. In addition to using his plane's nose art he personalized his A 2 jacket with he and his wife's nicknames "Haze and