Original Items: Only One Pair Available. This is a lovely pair of German World War Two Luftwaffe canvas & leather flight gloves / mittens, which look to have seen light to moderate use during the war. They feature green canvas exteriors with full grain leather palms, and a woven fuzzy insulated lining in the "hand" portion of the gauntlet style mittens. The mittens have separate index fingers, indicating use by the air gunners, who would need to be able to move their trigger finger separately. They feature snap adjustments around the wrist and cuffs for a tighter fit, very important in cold weather.

There is no size marking inside the gloves, and they seem to be close to a U.S. "Large" or maybe "Medium". They both bear the same Luftwaffe Acceptance marking stamped along the interior edge:

L.B.A. (S.) 40

This indicates they were inspected at the Luftwaffebekleidungsamt (Air Force Clothing Office) in Sonneberg, Germany in 1940. This marking is only seen on pre and early war Luftwaffe items. We checked the snaps, and all are marked with S. H. B., a known maker of snaps for WWII Germany.

There is moderate wear to the leather of both gloves, with crazing to the straps, but they are both still in great overall condition.

The combination of the matching 1940 Luftwaffe acceptance stamps, green canvas construction, leather palms, separate trigger fingers, insulated lining, period S.H.B. hardware, and matching condition makes this a particularly strong early-war pair of Luftwaffe flying mittens and an excellent addition to a German aviation equipment display.