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Fabulous size 44 A-2 by Aero Leather, this is a painted jacket attributed to Faite "Shaggie" Mack.
If you look on Google, it is also stated on a website that he was a Tuskegee Airman.
The owner of this grouping bought it as such about 20 years ago, but an "expert" has contacted me stating that Mack was a private and not a pilot and so in the spirit of fairness, you are buying only a very fine and rare original painted A-2 with an unverified attribution.
I don't know who is right, this individual or....if the website and film that state Mack was a Tuskegee airman and a Lt. Col..
I do not have the time to do the research or to argue and so you are just buying it as a fine painted A-2 - do your own history research, if you want more..
Here is one quick google result which deals with a film on Mack as a Tuskegee Airman:
DeJonge has received nearly 100 awards for his work, including worldwide first-place recognition for his documentation of the funeral of Tuskegee Airman Col. Faite Mack, titled The Final Gift, and a national first place for a promotional campaign he undertook on behalf of the Professional Photographers of America. He is a frequent public speaker on the creative and business aspects of photography. He has also won first place in the World for Photojournalism.....
This is a significant rare and original painted A-2, accomapnied by medals, 15th patch wing and ribbons as shown in reicher case, (the Tuskegee pennant and large photo portrait are not included, as these are jsut snapshots from Mack's home approx. 20 years ago).
On Nov-16-08 at 12:54:40 PST, seller added the following information:One ebayer writes....
While further research is definitely warranted, I believe you are correct. The fact is Mack and virually all 1,900 Tuskegee Airmen enlisted as privates in the Air Corps. Faite Mack is recorded as having enlisted in the Air Corps on 7 Oct 1942. Enlisting as a private is meaningless in determining whether or not somebody went on to become a pilot and not everybody accepted into the Tuskegee program became a pilot. There were others who became navigators, bombardiers, or held other officer ratings. Some enlisted personnel were trained at Tuskegee as ground suport personnel such as airplane mechanics, radio technicians, etc. It is unlikely that anyone completing a technical course and assigned to an active Air Corps squadron would have remained a private. Assuming that the Air Medal that is in the group is legitimate then he was almost certainly assigned to 332nd Fighter Group, which was the only black flying outfit to serve overseas. There were no flying enlisted men in the 332nd.
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