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I picked up a marine corp collectors group and he had a bunch of end of ww2 and post ww2 Korea stuff along with patches. Can someone date this patch? Has the white backing a lot of the patches seem to be in the 50's

 

 

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Patchcollector

Nice patches!I did a Google search for VMFA-531 and came up with this:

 

VMFA-531 SQUADRON HISTORY
VMF(N)-531 -- Activated, 16 November 1942
VMF(AW)-531 -- Redesignated, 14 October 1948
VMFA-531 -- Redesignated, 1 August 1963
VMFA-531 -- Decommissioned, 27 March 1992

 

Here is a link to where I found the info:

 

http://sbcglobalpwp.att.net/v/m/vmfa531/VMFA-531%20History.html

 

As for the Black Sheep patch,I'm thinking it probably dates from the same era.Just my opinion.

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a few others

 

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The HMH-361 patch is the patch that they came up with soon after they transitioned From UH-34s to the Ch-53A. This happened about 1969. That patch is from the late 1960s, early 1970s. Prior to this time the squadron was designated HMM-361 (and before that HMR-361)

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