Salvage Sailor Posted February 14, 2020 Share #1 Posted February 14, 2020 Aloha Everyone, This is yet another reference topic for patches manufactured by Matsuo Trading Company of Yokohama, Japan for ships and stations of the United States Navy Please post any examples of Matsuo Trading Company patches that you may have in the original packaging (carded) or tagged along with a loose patch if you have one. There are not many examples of this company's work so please dig through your collection and post them If you've got them I've seen this patch a few times over the years and now can give it a positive ID as to the Japanese manufacturer - Matsuo Trading Co. Inc. Yokohama, Japan The patch commemorates the 300,000th arrested landing aboard the Blue Ghost in 1972 when she was "Training pilots for the Fleet" (and the skies above Hanoi), which means she made 100,000 of those landings between 1967 & 1972. If you estimate the math, that's between 70 and 100 landings per day, every day, around the clock over 5 years. From her service history Into 1969, Lexington operated out of her home port, Pensacola, as well as Corpus Christi and New Orleans, qualifying student aviators and maintaining the high state of training of both active-duty and reserve naval aviators. Her work became of increasing significance as she prepared the men vital to the Navy and Marine Corps operations over Vietnam, where naval aviation played a major role. Lexington marked her 200,000th arrested landing on 17 October 1967, and was redesignated CVT-16 on 1 January 1969. She continued as a training carrier for the next 22 years until she was relieved by Forrestal, and Lexington was decommissioned and struck on 8 November 1991 It would seem that Matsuo Trading had quite a few items to offer to Vietnam era servicemen beyond patches. Anyone else have any Matsuo Trading items? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share #2 Posted February 14, 2020 USS LEXINGTON (CVT-16) Matsuo Trading Co. - Reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share #3 Posted February 14, 2020 From the web - Matsuo Trading Co, Yokohama Japan with label AIRANTISUBRON 24 (VS-24) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted December 10, 2021 VS-24 Duty Cats, Matsuo Trading Co., Yokohama, Japan 1960's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Siamundo Posted October 8, 2022 Share #6 Posted October 8, 2022 Here are a few I have. Might have more, but these were all I could readily find. Interestingly they are are Photo related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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