The 313th fighter 9th AAF sq. patch and an original star and wings felt shoulder patch to complete the look...
The artwork was inspired by an original 9th AF P-47 thunderbolt "nose art"....
A close up of 'Panchito" from Disney's 1944 animated feature :"the 3 caballeros"....Back in the early 90's as i didn't want to ruin a perfectly good original A-2, i decided to get a copy just for every day use .It seemed quit impossible at the time, to find a repro to satisfy my discriminating taste ..there was always something wrong back then,with the handful of brands catering to such a market.Neither Sefton,Nor the now world famous Eastman[whose catalog was at the time heavily inspired by Mc coy's to say the least] were good enough.So while working as a designer for a famous French clothing company ,i decided to take advantage of my easy access to their factory and talked the owner into letting me do a prototype on my own "dineros" for the up coming season .The result can be seen above......Well !! 20 years after i still think it's not so bad for a first try.
