Embroidered Para Wing Thoughts

[Fritz]

Got this wing a few days ago, came with a pretty ratty WW2 101 wing, is this a Brit embroidered wing? It's kinda salty

 

Fritz

[doyler]

Looks like a US made on tan twill to me.

[patches]

Agreed, and quite worse for wear we see, having been first sewn to a uniform and then removed at one point, and stapled to a display of some sorts as witnessed by the rust marking of the staples, and the tear areas, where it seems when this badge was removed from whatever it was stapled to, the person, rather than popping the staples just tore the thing off causing those tears.

[Fritz]

Thanks Doyler, I just don’t know the embroidered ones that good

 

Fritz

[patches]

Yeah, yours was no doubt originally sewn to either a fatique shirt/field Jacket, or a Khaki cotton twill shirt. Something that was commonly done with these type of Khaki Twill insignia, both Officers ranks and Branch of Service badges and Qualification and skill badges.

[Tonomachi]

These are post war and to my eye someone got in a hurry and sewed this on backwards in that it is inside out.

[patches]

These are post war and to my eye someone got in a hurry and sewed this on backwards in that it is inside out.

You're right it is folded inside out and sewn that way, good eye.

[triplecanopy]

I suppose 'wrong side out sewing' was not unique. The little old ladies that ran the sewing shops around Fort Bragg inverted patches often. Here are a couple of Senior Parachutist wings I have had for many years. I' ll bet they could run a sewing machine in the dark, with one hand, but occasionally they mistakenly turned the edges the wrong way.

[triplecanopy]

Here are the insides. I guess after many good washing and starches, it doesn't make much difference.