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jagjetta
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Greetings,

Been having a devil of a time tracking this patch's identification. After flipping through books all weekend, I turn to my USMF friends for help. Does anyone know what unit may have worn this patch of a cat hugging a falling bomb?

 

Thanks.

 

John A-G

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Its the 464th Bomb squadron and I think its when they were flying B-29s.Its ID on page 47 of the usafpatches.com website in the no inscription section.Scotty

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Johnny Signor

Hey John, you're having them same situation I am with this one, many years ago when I first started doing research on WW2 flying unit emblems I came across this one , was "told" a couple of ID's and I didn't at the time have the good sense to keep the "contact" Info about it.

 

Anyway , here"s what I was told, 464th Bombardment Squadron/331st Bombardment Group/2nd/20th AAF, or 36th Bombardment Squadron,2nd BG, lastly a "Photo Recon Sqd" unsure of number of the unit .....................................

 

So I guess we're both still "in the dark" on it as they say , hopefully with the image posted someone will find a "definitive" ID for us and we can put this one away !!!!!

Johnny

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Thank you, so much, Bill and Johnny! That one was a real stumper and you made it easy. I should have started with the question on USMF instead of spending all of Father's Day flipping through my books searching for it.

 

Again, thank you for the help.

 

JAG

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WorldWarPatches

464th scan from 1944 Air Heraldry looks close. you decide. I think usaf.com is wrong on this one

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Johnny Signor

Does anyone have a photo of the first posted image(color) in use either in patch form or as art on aircraft and or base sign etc ??????????????????

 

I'm thinking it's a 464th but either a "stateside" design or a short lived "Unofficial" design used by that unit seeing as they got the B-29's late in the war and only a short time before the war ended .

 

Would really appreciate anything showing this one in use !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Johnny

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The patch looks more like a 1950's era squadron patch than a WWII patch. Just my personal opinion, of course!

 

-Ski

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Johnny Signor

Yeah , it very well could be , I'd be happy just finding out it's proper ID and era................................................

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