71st Liaison Squadron | 1st Liaison Group | 10th AAF CBI | Disney designed insignia

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71st Liaison Squadron | 1st Liaison Group | 10th AAF CBI | Disney designed insignia

 

Lineage: Constituted 71st Liaison Squadron on 17 Jun 1943. Activated on 15 Jul 1943. Inactivated on 8 Dec 1945.

Assignments: Tenth Air Force, 15 Jul 1943; US Army Forces, CBI, 19 Aug 1943 (attached to the 5303d Combat Troops [later 5303d Area Command, later Northern Combat Area Command], c. Oct 1943 - Aug 1944; detachment attached to Y Force, Nov 1943 - c. 1 Jul 1944); AAF, India-Burma Sector, 28 Mar 1944; Tenth Air Force, 21 Aug 1944 (attached to 1st Liaison Group [Prov], 29 Aug 1944 - 30 Apr 1945); Fourteenth Air Force, 6 Jul 1945 (attached to XIV Air Force Tactical Air Command, 24 Jul - 1 Aug 1945); Tenth Air Force, 1 Aug - 8 Dec 1945.

Stations: Ondal, India, 15 Jul 1943; Ramgarh, India, 17 Jul 1943 (detachment at Ledo, India, after 18 Sep 1943); Ledo, India, 26 Oct 1943 (detachment at Kunming, China, Nov 1943 - c. 1 Jul 1944); Sahmaw, Burma, 15 Oct 1944; Katha, Burma, 16 Jan 1945; Myitkyina, Burma, 22 Mar 1945; Dinjan, India, c. 24 Apr 1945 (air echelon at Myitkyina, Burma, to May 1945); Piardoba, India, 12 May - 10 Jul 1945; Kunming, China, 25 Jul 1945; Liuchow, China, 21 Aug 1945; Chihkiang, China, c. 7 Oct 1945; Kunming, China, Oct 1945; Salua AAB, India, 4 Nov - 8 Dec 1945.

Aircraft: In addition to L-5, 1943-1945, included L-4, 1943-1945, and L-1 and UC-64, 1944-1945.

Operations: Combat in CBI, c. Oct 1943 - May 1945.

Campaigns: India-Burma; China Defensive; Central Burma; China Offensive.

Emblem: Walt Disney Productions. Over and through a yellow disc, the caricatured elephant, Dumbo, with ears acting as wings, holding a brown dispatch case under the left foreleg, in flight, toward dexter, wearing aviator's goggles, and having an ornate yellow and orange howdah strapped about the back, containing a brown crutch, a box of freight, proper, and a small, caricatured figure attired in blue pajamas, with a bandage about the head, and the right arm in a sling, leaning out of front of howdah, all over two, small parapack 'chutes with boxes of freight, in front of a small white cloud formation to sinister base. (Approved 20 Feb 1945.)

 

Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II.

 

 

Theater-made. Multi-piece leather, hand-painted. | Designed by Walt Disney Productions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

71st LS 1st LG 10th AAF CBI

 

[tredhed2]

This is actually a fun looking design and is in great shape. Thanks for sharing it.

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Incredible condition. Wow!