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Splitting principle for real vector bundles

I'm reading the Book of John Roe, Elliptic Operators, Topology and Asymptotic Methods and got stuck at Lemma at Lemma 2.27.

i) How does this lemma show that a real vector bundle can be given by a pullback of direct sums of plane bundles?

ii) Assuming i) is clear, is this equation $\Pi_f(E) = \prod_j g(p_1(P_j))$ then true for suitable real 2-plane bundles? What happens in odd dimensions?

I appreciate some literature or concise explaination. :)