WorldWarPatches Posted June 28, 2013 Share #1 Posted June 28, 2013 This is a No-Glow cut edge......was part of a large WW 2 collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLHorstead Posted June 28, 2013 Share #2 Posted June 28, 2013 The Insignia is the 7477th PETROLEUM PIPELINE SQUADRON (USAFE), Formerly ID'ed as the 3977th PETROLEUM PIPELINE SQUADRON (SAC) Stationed at San Pablo, Spain. Terry L Horstead TSgt USAF, Retired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted June 28, 2013 Share #3 Posted June 28, 2013 Great ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Dogs Posted June 28, 2013 Share #4 Posted June 28, 2013 If you look close, you can see where the top and bottom tabs were cut off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted June 28, 2013 Share #5 Posted June 28, 2013 If you look close, you can see where the top and bottom tabs were cut off. Good eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted June 28, 2013 Share #6 Posted June 28, 2013 Great ID as usual Terry! -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLHorstead Posted June 28, 2013 Share #7 Posted June 28, 2013 The Insignia is the 7477th PETROLEUM PIPELINE SQUADRON (USAFE), Formerly ID'ed as the 3977th PETROLEUM PIPELINE SQUADRON (SAC) Stationed at San Pablo, Spain. The Squadron was originally the 3977th but was redesignated when Sixteenth AF was transfered from SAC to USAFE in 1966, Terry L Horstead TSgt USAF, Retired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted June 28, 2013 Share #8 Posted June 28, 2013 The Insignia is the 7477th PETROLEUM PIPELINE SQUADRON (USAFE), Formerly ID'ed as the 3977th PETROLEUM PIPELINE SQUADRON (SAC) Stationed at San Pablo, Spain. The Squadron was originally the 3977th but was redesignated when Sixteenth AF was transfered from SAC to USAFE in 1966, Terry L Horstead TSgt USAF, Retired That could explain the removed tabs. That happened sometimes when units were redesignated but kept the same insignia. Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldWarPatches Posted June 29, 2013 Author Share #9 Posted June 29, 2013 Kewl Thanks for the info....now who wants it....I don't sell these. 1st one to pm me an address will get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLHorstead Posted August 18, 2013 Share #10 Posted August 18, 2013 Supplemental Info The US Military had a AvGas/oil/JP-4 pipeline in Spain to support the Military Bases there. This pipeline started in Rota Spain where Ships unloaded fuel into large Tanks. The pipeline transported the JP-4 fuel/oil/gasoline through Seville Spain, where two American Bases, Moron de la Frontera, and San Pablo, were located, then almost three hundred miles though farmland, mountains and streams to Madrid, where another Military Base, Torrejon de Ardoz, was located. The pipeline continueed on for another couple hundred miles to Zaragoza, Spain where another Base, Zaragoza AB, was located. The pipeline ran about five feet below the ground and you could see where it was because the friction of the oil/fuel running through the pipeline created heat and dried the ground above it forming almost a white line above the buried pipeline. Every 100 miles there was a Pump Station that brought the oil/fuel above ground to repressurize the flow. TLH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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