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How many Variations of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club


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Hi Howard,

This is a group I sold here a couple months ago.

Regards, Mitch

 

Excellent pieces Mitch!

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Not a GOT patch but these guys trained the pilots.From what I could find the patch was worn by 'plowback' instructors, recent graduates that stayed to train new pilots, of VT-7.Vt-7 was stationed at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Meridian, Mississippi.They were flying the T-37B's at this time.

 

 

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Here are some of my Yacht Club patches.

 

 

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LARGE BACK PATCH. APPROX 7"

 

 

 

 

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JAPANESE MADE

 

 

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U.S. MADE

 

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JAPANESE MADE

 

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JAPANESE MADE WITH 2ND TOUR HASH MARK

 

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THIS WAS FROM A NAVY TRAINING SQ (VT) THAT WAS STATIONED IN MISSISSIPPI. THEY RE-QUALIFED COMBAT PILOTS.

See post #11

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On 10/6/2016 at 1:04 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

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An old thread I pulled up to answer a question on Facebook.

 

However, I owned one of these as a kid.

 

I was in a Cub Scout or Boy Scout troop that had an annual formal dinner.  One of our parents worked for a patch manufacturer in Philadelphia, and it very will may have been the Leonard Corporation (I never new the name of it.)  As a give away at the dinner, they gave each of us a bag of patches.  Most of them were Boy Scout patches, which we were very happy to receive.  (Oddly, one of them was for a "BSA Missile Man for a Day";  I've often wondered what that was about.)

 

But the biggest item of my lot was one of these, somewhere around 4 to 5 inches wide.  I had no idea what it was at the time, but it was one of my favorites for years to come.  

 

Over time I lost that one, but in subsequent collecting I've picked up another.  But it was proof to me that despite naysayers, there were novelty patches made in the USA during the Vietnam War.

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