ocsfollowme Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share #376 Posted March 30, 2016 I didn't think was a home front patch. For this thread, I count school and training patches as home front too. This is a proficiency badge that was awarded at Fort Benning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted March 30, 2016 Share #377 Posted March 30, 2016 For this thread, I count school and training patches as home front too. This is a proficiency badge that was awarded at Fort Benning. Gotcha! When I see home front I think sweetheart or civilian companies that trained or produced for the war effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share #378 Posted March 30, 2016 I agree that "home front" patches tend to be the support in the states. Since I still want to collect Army and AAF patches, the main ones that I need are out of my price range so I snag up school patches stateside on the cheap side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted March 30, 2016 Share #379 Posted March 30, 2016 I agree that "home front" patches tend to be the support in the states. Since I still want to collect Army and AAF patches, the main ones that I need are out of my price range so I snag up school patches stateside on the cheap side. Even some of those school patches are crazy expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share #380 Posted April 20, 2016 Somehow I missed posting this one. The Umatilla Ordnance Depot is still in operation today as the destruction of 14% of our nation's chemical weapons houses there is supposed to be complete by 2015. A neat piece of trivia on the makeup of this patch is the wool base material that is used. Pendleton Woolen factory is from the same location too, so that makes sense. From: http://www.ohs.org/e...A8CE8F7D86756A3 This photograph shows workers at the U.S. Army’s Umatilla Ordnance Depot stenciling and inspecting 155-millimeter artillery shells. It was taken by anOregon Journal photographer in April 1943. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began planning the construction of the Umatilla Ordnance Depot in the summer of 1940. A site near the eastern Oregon town of Hermiston was chosen because of its rail connections and its interior location, which would make it a more difficult target for enemy aircraft. Work on the facility began in January 1941 and was finished a year later. At the height of construction there were over 7,000 workers involved on the project, the centerpiece of which was 1,001 “igloos,” concrete buildings used to store munitions. The depot also had more than 200 miles of roads and 40 miles of railroad tracks, as well as a number of administrative buildings, machine shops, warehouses, and other structures. The Umatilla Ordnance Depot did not manufacture munitions but it stored every kind of munition in the American arsenal, from .30-caliber small arms ammunition to two-ton blockbuster bombs. The 1943 article that accompanied the photograph above noted that “just how much in weight of explosives is stored at the Umatilla depot cannot be told, but it's a fair guess to say there’s enough, if it all could be properly planted, to just about tear Mr. Tojo’s war machine apart.” During World War II, women workers made up a substantial part of the depot’s work force, the great majority of which was civilian. In 1943, 27 percent of the workers at the depot were women, and anOregonian article noted that the “ordnance department hopes to increase the percentage, because they are doing a good job and because they are draft-proof.” Women also formed about a quarter of the work force in other important war industries in the region. The Umatilla Ordnance Depot continued to store conventional munitions after the conclusion of World War II. It began to store chemical weapons in 1962, eventually accumulating approximately 12 percent of the nation’s stockpile of nerve and blister agents. Reports of leaking nerve agents in the late 1970s led many Oregonians, including Senator Mark Hatfield and Governor Vic Atiyeh, to call for the destruction of the depot’s chemical weapons stocks. In 1986, Congress ordered the Department of Defense to dispose of the nation’s remaining chemical weapons. The incineration of chemical weapons at the depot began in 2004 and is scheduled for completion in 2012. Further Reading:Schwantes, Carlos, ed. The Pacific Northwest in World War II. Manhattan, Kans., 1986. Written by Cain Allen, © Oregon Historical Society, 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted April 21, 2016 Share #381 Posted April 21, 2016 OCS great looking patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted April 21, 2016 Share #382 Posted April 21, 2016 This is a great thread with some beautiful insignia. Anyway we can PIN this???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share #383 Posted April 21, 2016 I have always been hoping to get it pinned, but I have been adding photos every other week so it keeps it to the top. Most if not all of the patches in this thread will be seen in Barry Stein's new book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share #384 Posted April 23, 2016 Finally picked up a 308th AAFFTD Ground Instructor patch. One popped up on a BIN for $5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share #385 Posted April 27, 2016 USN mirror patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share #386 Posted April 29, 2016 Only one that I have ever seen before. Sustineo Alas (USAAF Technical Training Command) - (1942-1946) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted May 7, 2016 Author Share #387 Posted May 7, 2016 This is the first twill variation that I have ever seen. These are typically FE and greenback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted May 7, 2016 Author Share #388 Posted May 7, 2016 My $5 purchase at the Pomona show today. Never seen this style before. Blue Star Flag. WW2 Son in Service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share #389 Posted June 4, 2016 Finally got the Marine Corps. Gosh, this was a 3 year project! This completes the set I believe). The larger Army is the only one that I have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share #390 Posted June 9, 2016 Nebraska Aviation Institute. Very large patch. You see a similar color NAI wing patch that went with the same school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share #391 Posted June 11, 2016 A huge coverall style patch. Before the Merger with Curtiss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share #392 Posted June 11, 2016 Completed the known set of the 3x SSI for the Aero ITI school located in Los Angeles, CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted June 24, 2016 Author Share #393 Posted June 24, 2016 Hawthorne Primary Pilot Training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share #394 Posted June 25, 2016 Utah Depot MP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted June 26, 2016 Share #395 Posted June 26, 2016 This is a great thread with some beautiful insignia. Anyway we can PIN this???? Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share #396 Posted June 26, 2016 Thanks Gil! I usually buy a new home front patch every other week so it keeps it to the top of the thread. Now it will be easier to find! I had the two above tabs in my collection for a year as I purchased a huge lot of patches from an employee from a patch factory worker from the 1940s. This 963 Baltimore was up on eBay and it was the key to figuring this one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share #397 Posted July 14, 2016 One of the 3 hardest Civil Defense patches to find. Forest Fire Fighters Service patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra 6 Actual Posted July 14, 2016 Share #398 Posted July 14, 2016 One of the 3 hardest Civil Defense patches to find. Forest Fire Fighters Service patch. forest.JPG OK, you've got me, ocsfollowme: what are the other two hardest to find CD patches? Instructor and Bomb Squad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsfollowme Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share #399 Posted July 14, 2016 OK, you've got me, ocsfollowme: what are the other two hardest to find CD patches? Instructor and Bomb Squad? Instructor, mounted patrol, forest fire then bomb squad. Mounted patrol brings the most money. I only have an instructor cap device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra 6 Actual Posted July 14, 2016 Share #400 Posted July 14, 2016 Instructor, mounted patrol, forest fire then bomb squad. Mounted patrol brings the most money. I only have an instructor cap device. Ah, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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