Hi TrackheadTrackhead M2 wrote:Dear Clive,Clive Mortimore wrote:The British did devise body armour, 1 million sets were ordered but this was reduced to 300,000 because the commanders could decide who would be issued with it, in the end 15,000 sets were sent to the 21st Army group but never used. The RAF received quite a large number but I do not know waht they done with them.
Am I right that the term "Flak Jacket" as we called the armoured vest we wore in Northern Ireland, comes from the jackets worn by USAAF bomber crews to protect them from shell splinters from German Anti-Aircraft guns. The USAAF wore body armour in WW2.
Clive
Don't you think RAF crews needed the armor for the same reasons the USAAF crews did?
Strike Swiftly,
TH-M2
I think you may be right, the RAF crews didn't need armour like the USAAF crews despite being shot at by the same German FlaK batteries, machine gunned by the same Luftwaffe fighters while over the same targets.
Clive