The G-1 military flight jacket is the commonly accepted name for the fur-lined-collar World War II-era flight jacket of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.More technically, the jacket may be considered the U.S. Military flight jacket developed in 1947 and used in the Korean War, since the term G-1 was not used as a label for this fur-collared military-issued jacket until after World War II. However, the term G-1 has come to be used for this style of naval leather flight jacket. Prior to the end of World War II, and starting in 1940 when it was officially named by the U.S. Navy, the jacket had the military spec number of M-422.This jacket was brought to use by the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, and standardized by the Navy in 1940 as the M-422A.It is arguably best known as the leather flight jacket worn by Tom Cruise in the film Top Gun. After the success of Top Gun, shopping-mall leather stores carried a variety of G-1 variants.
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