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Bobby
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Kume Shima is an island west of Okinawa.

 

http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-352236&fid=3269&c=japan

 

It has an airfield. It is quite possible we had a detachment there at one time.

 

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e7175.html

 

The colors actually look more like something you would see from the Marine Corps, but that could be coincidence.

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Then I found this... very random, but notes about USAF and USN units that were there...

 

http://www.kumejima.warwickhi.com/Guestbook.pdf

 

Looks like USAF 623rd AC&W Det 2 had a radar site there.

 

Check out this reunion page..

 

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/KumeJimaOkinawa/info

 

And some more patches..

 

http://623acw1.blogspot.com/

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