Dragon patrol bombing sq 119

[mortaydc60]

Just saw this new listing and the patch looks really cool. Tried to research the unit and cannot find. Looked in AAF,RAF,and Navy to no luck. Seller is Graf-zepplin. Here is scan Thanks Mort

[Johnny Signor]

US Navy WW2 , nice one !

Go to this site

VP Navy and look under the titles for VP / VPB it should be there , the titles are on the left side of the screen on the main page click them and then go into the "Numbered" units and scroll down you'll see them there , and then click the unit's number and there's a box that will say "Patch/es " click it and look there

[mortaydc60]

Thanks for the answer. Strange that one of the sites I got on Google had a Navy book section siting chapt 4 on patrol bombing sq but only went to 118 and never mentioned 119. As usual you are the

AnswerMan! Thanks again. Mort

[Johnny Signor]

yeah , the Navy patches especially WW2 era are really hard to track down, I found VP Navy a very good site for checking them out, also got two Great cd roms from a historian out of Calif w/Tailhook that has Lots of the WW2 "Unoffical" emblems and original art drawings of them ,HH booker posted them on the fourm under his pages about various insignias etc .

 

Anyway , always glad to help with ID's when I can !

[firefighter]

Lineage

Established as Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN (VB-119) on 15 August 1944.

Redesignated Patrol Bombing Squadron ONE HUN- DRED NINETEEN (VPB-119) on 1 October 1944

Redesignated Patrol Squadron ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN (VP-119) on 15 May 1946.

Redesignated Heavy Patrol Squadron (Landplane) NINE (VP-HL-9) on 15 November 1946.

Redesignated Medium Patrol Squadron (Landplane) SEVEN (VP-ML-7) on 25 June 1947.

Redesignated Patrol Squadron SEVEN (VP-7) on 1 September 1948, the second squadron to be assigned the VP-7 designation.

Disestablished on 8 October 1969.

Squadron Insignia and Nickname

The first squadron insignia was designed by the members of VB-119 in the 1944 to 1945 time frame. Since there are no official records on file indicating CNO approval of the design, it would appear to be an “unofficial” insignia used by the members of the squadron until its redesignation to VP-119 in 1946. The patch featured a dragon with the Japanese rising sun in its jaws. At the top of the patch was the name “Dragon Patrol,” with “Bombing Squadron 119” at the bottom. Colors: dragon, green, yellow and pinkish red; flag, red and white; background, black; letters and piping around patch, yellow.

The squadron’s second insignia was submitted to CNO and approved on 8 July 1948. The squadron had been redesignated VP-ML-7 in 1947 and was assigned the P2V-2 Neptune, then famous due to the long-dis- tance flight of the “Truculent Turtle” from Australia to Ohio on 29 September to 1 October 1946. Squadron personnel designed a patch that borrowed from the feat by featuring a turtle armed with binoculars, rocket, torpedo, 20-mm machine gun and a flat-nose

 

 

From : DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN NAVAL AVIATION SQUADRONS—Volume 2