Named, Painted and Patched Korean War USN AN-J-3A

[carrabassett]

Picked this nice jacket up recently and would love to know if anyone could shed any info on the pilot, W.G. Miete. The patches are neat and the painted skull is pretty cool too. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jim

 

[carrabassett]

[KASTAUFFER]

Great looking jacket!

 

Kurt

[KASTAUFFER]

His full name is Walter G Miete.

[cricket]

Sorry no info on the owner but a beautiful jacket.

[doyler]

Very nice

[Jeffro]

Here's a photo of the squadron from the Bonnie Dick's 1952 Cruise book:

 

 

Your man is in the middle of the first row. Jeffro

[carrabassett]

Thanks Jeffro, that’s fantastic! Appreciate all the help.

[Paulruss]

Good looking jacket

[jerry_k]

What a great WW2 contracted jacket! Thanks for the pics.

 

Regards,

Jerry

[aznation]

Really cool looking jacket! Anyone notice what appears to be words forming the teeth of the painted skull? Can't make it out for sure, but kinda looks like fighting Sr on top and "justice" below that. Any other comments/guesses on wording or am I wrong about those being words of some kind?

[kammo-man]

The skull is stenciled.

 

owen

[carrabassett]

The skull stencil design was originally for VA-34 which was redesignated VF-9A in 1946. The “teeth” of the skull spelled Fighting 20 on the original WW2 design but changed to Fighting 9A post war as seen on this jacket. Thanks!

[aznation]

The skull stencil design was originally for VA-34 which was redesignated VF-9A in 1946. The “teeth” of the skull spelled Fighting 20 on the original WW2 design but changed to Fighting 9A post war as seen on this jacket. Thanks!

 

Thanks for the explanation of the teeth spelling.

[1canpara]

Wow! That’s a beauty!

[Michael miete]

Hello I know a lot about Walter. He was born October 16,1919 passed away May 12,2010. Graduated from Wiscasset Academy in 1937 was married February 19,1950. Worked at Bath Iron Works. (Walter was my grandfather)

[Salvage Sailor]

On 9/3/2018 at 9:46 AM, carrabassett said:

 

Very nice to see the untrimmed patch in use

 

USMF Topic -->> USN Korean War Patches 1950-1953

 

[Michael miete]

Who has it now?