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This is part of the group of patches known as trade patches. Ww1ww2 items, military, old antiques, fire dept stuff. The star of burma represents the geographical location of operations. The lightning bolts represent land, sea, and airthe three. These variants of the ss bolts are most frequently associated with prison tattoos. The lightning bolt is a symbol for speed and striking power, symbols of general frank d. New listing vintage ss pins collectible military memorabilia 2. The arrowhead is an acknowledgement of the great skills of the american indian, which special forces soldiers train to learn.
A reoccurring theme with vietnam era military patches, especially for the army and multiservice units listed above, is a vertical sword in the center of the patch. Security forces, the airbase ground defense and military police component of the u. The oval patch is constructed out of a green wool base with a machine embroidered downward pointing thin blitz arrow in light green rayon threads to its center. Red lightning bolt embroidered patches twopiece ironon.
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On april 29th 1944 he and the rest of crew had to bail out when their b17 was shot down by german fighters in the neighborhood of apeldoorn. Vietnam military patches and their meanings medals of. The signal corps telltale sign is the presence of a lightning bolt somewhere on the patch. Wwii german master radioman patch dark green wool oval with six lightning bolts eminating from the center. This is a pair of lightning bolt patches is made from high quality leatherette material. Insignia mark bandos website a collection of pre 1946 vintage u. Us army 9th armored division shoulder sleeve patch with.
The ss of course adoptef the double fune patch as its symbol. To iron on the patch set your iron to yield a temperature between 260280 degrees fahrenheit. At tactical shit, we curate the best morale patches as they happen from hundreds of manufacturers world wide including violent little machine shop, milspec monkey, dumb box and more. Of field gray wool construction with embroidered zigzagging lightning bolts done with white thread. An interesting area of affordable collecting to many of us is the standard, usmade, od border armor triangle with two or three digit numbers that have been added to the triangle. As well as being a convenient abbreviation for the german schutzstaffel protection squadron, it also means victory, victory. Here we have a pre1940 army jager troop light infantry signals trade badge. Ww2 german ss signals sleeve diamond lightning bolt tradeaward badge.
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