Air Corps Gunnery School Tee

This graphic tee was created for Nellis Air Force Base, the first gunnery school to train personnel in aerial gunnery skills for aircrafts such as B-17 Flying Fortress during WWII.

This is a pretty iconic graphic tee due to the fact that this was the first time a graphic tee was captured in media. July 13th 1942, Life Magazine did a segment on returning soldiers from World War 2, and the magazine had the cover of a man(Corporal Alexander Le Gerda) who wore this graphic tee. Prior to this the world didn’t know graphic tee existed as it was created in the army to distinguish man from other infantry.

The design features a winged horned toad shooting a 0.30 caliber machine gun perched upon a blue cloud. The tee was screen printed on to a American Athletic Co. cotton tee.

While there are many replicas the original 1942 tee was sold for $1,009 on August 23rd, 2015.