Cockpit USA Men's B-3 Sheepskin Bomber Jacket Size:46 The Korean War blood chit

The Korean War blood chit was issued to UN forces aircrew flying over the Korean peninsula from 1950 to 1953 — a conflict where downed pilots faced a complex survival environment spanning territory controlled by North Korean

It is made to be worn on ACU digital camo garments

but actual braided leather cord applied by hand during construction

The 12-language format was the result of years of refinement: early Vietnam blood chits had fewer languages and were found to be insufficient for the geographic spread of the conflict

The hand-braiding on the Gunslinger is done by hand — not machine-stitched braid trim

Cockpit USA Men's B-3 Sheepskin Bomber Jacket Size:46 The Korean War blood chitCockpit USA founder Jeff Clyman spent years rediscovering the long lost WWII leather finish for the B 3 before reviving it in the late 1980s restoring what had been missing from every B 3 reproduction since the war. The Cockpit USA B 3 Sheepskin Bomber Jacket is the result of that work: thick supple sheepskin with a nappa finished exterior, built to the same specification that kept Army Air Force bomber crews warm in unpressurized cabins at 25,000