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On 10/6/2013 at 8:15 PM, ASMIC2971 said:

One more. Thai made patch for the US Army Vessel LT-536

LT-536 Great rare Army's Navy patch......

 

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Here's another USN rarity  ..... put on your tinfoil hat for this one.....

Original Project Magnet patch U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office 1953

World-Wide Airborne Geomagnetic Survey 1951-1953 (or were they really tracking UFO's, Mao and Stalin)

 

 

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PROJECT MAGNET PRESS RELEASE

 

ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/geomagnetism/docs/publications/1966/TheHydrographicSurveysDepartmentoftheUSNavalOceanographicOffice_1966_318.pdf

 

The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office has confirmed the existence of Project Magnet, an “Airborne Geomagnetic Survey,” as an unclassified project allegedly not related to UFO investigation. In the previous edition of the UFO Investigator (Vol. l1 No.9) NICAP reported a link between this project and the Canadian government project of the same name, which was an avowed attempt to obtain scientific data on UFOs. Personnel of one of the U.S. project aircraft, a specially equipped Constellation, had admitted to Advisor Robert C. Beck that the two projects were “closely related.” Mr. Beck was told that they were searching out magnetic anomalies, - disruptions of the earth’s magnetic field,-emanating from above the earth.

 

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In a letter to a NICAP member dated November 21, 1963, Cmdr. P.B. Everson, U.S.N., gave the following information:

 

Project Magnet was initiated in 1951.
Currently there are two aircraft employed in the Project Magnet operations, one C-121 and one C-54 type aircraft.” (The C-121 presumably in the last issue).
The project is under the technical control and direction of the Navy Oceanographic Office.
The purpose is to gather data over the ocean areas for charts showing magnetic intensities and variations.
The project is authorized “on a permanent and continuing basis” by OPVAV (Navy Regulation) 3160.3B.
The average budget for the past three years has been $114,000 per fiscal year, including aircraft operation.

 

A brochure prepared by the Oceanographic Office makes no mention of UFOs, magnetic anomalies from above the earth, or the Canadian project. NICAP will continue to seek addition information about a possible tie-in with unpublicized UFO investigations by the Navy.

 

 

 

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I getting kinda bored, so I have to ask if you guys could post pictures of your rarest patches to get my mind blown or something. I would post my own but can't seem to get a working camera.

That bullion 17th ABN is awesome! My uncle was KIA 3-30-45 and was 513th PIR of the 17th ABN.

 

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WW1 Third Army Trains and 371st Infantry Regiment (Black Devils).

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WW1 148th Field Artillery Regiment, 349th and 351st Field Artillery Regiments.

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Here's a few of mine:

 

502nd PIR -

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WW1 2nd Division 6th Marines Machine Gun Battalion

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1st Quartermaster Demonstration Regiment

 

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WW1 era to 1920s US hospital at Nantes

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nice theater made CATF

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8th Air Depot Group

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another 8th Air Depot Group theater made

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Your 8th Air Depot patches are KILLER.

 

Thank you! If I told you how I found them and what I paid for them you'd probably fall out of your chair! :)

 

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Thank you! If I told you how I found them and what I paid for them you'd probably fall out of your chair! :)

 

Hi Thor,

I happened to be there that morning, you did OK

Best, Hal Wright

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I think this one lives up to the title of the thread.

 

Allan

 

Allan,

 

What a stunning piece. And with the metal insignia and documentation.................wow.

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Hi Thor,

I happened to be there that morning, you did OK

Best, Hal Wright

 

These were purchased at a pawn shop for 25 cents apiece- they were part of a larger bag of patches.

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Thank you! If I told you how I found them and what I paid for them you'd probably fall out of your chair! :)

 

Even better.....................

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My humble contribution.

 

A couple pieces of Japanese bullion.

And that's what a real Japanese made 187th PGI in bullion should look like.,.,......

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40th ID Div Arty Air Section. It's not a flag, sewn all around the border. Photos on a sign and on aircraft in the book 40th Div Army Avn in Korea 1952-54 (Ketchum)

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Outstanding Bill. I have been after a SAARF set for a long time. Maybe someday.

 

Some may not realize how rare the Military Intelligence Service Language School patch is. This is where the 11th ABN and OSS Nisei paratroopers were recruited.

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