68 FMS

[Remember Me]

Flea market find today. The one with the knights helmet comes up as. USAFE  Weapons Center. And it looks like scribbled Latin on the bottom. I am guessing the E is for electronic. The 68 FMS  comes up as Foreign Military Sales. Can anybody tell what the thing is in the center of the patch. Thank you.

 

[yokota57]

USAFE: United States Air Forces in Europe. 7272d Aircraft Gunnery Group // 7272d Flying Training Wing was at Wheelus Air Base, Libya. That is a tasty oldie! I don't know what the device is on the 68th Field Maintenance Squadron patch.

[yokota57]

13 minutes ago, Remember Me said:

Flea market find today. The one with the knights helmet comes up as. USAFE  Weapons Center. And it looks like scribbled Latin on the bottom. I am guessing the E is for electronic. The 68 FMS  comes up as Foreign Military Sales. Can anybody tell what the thing is in the center of the patch. Thank you.

 

My USAFE WC patch currently on Flea-Bay.

[Remember Me]

Thank you. Goes to show what Google images doesn't know.  The second one looks like sewing thread type thing on the bottom. But also something on top that would tighten. Thank you for your time and information.

[yokota57]

2 minutes ago, Remember Me said:

Thank you. Goes to show what Google images doesn't know.  The second one looks like sewing thread type thing on the bottom. But also something on top that would tighten. Thank you for your time and information.

You are welcome. The 68th FMS was at Seymour Johnson AFB, NC. B-52-era.

[Remember Me]

Do you think that first one is foreign made and they just scribbled what they thought was English. Or does it make any sense.  Thanks.

[yokota57]

25 minutes ago, Remember Me said:

Do you think that first one is foreign made and they just scribbled what they thought was English. Or does it make any sense.  Thanks.

This one has been previously IDed as Japanese-made. Looks like Arabic script.

[Randy]

It is the 7272d Flying Training Wing was at Wheelus Air Base, Libya. The script is Arabic. The patch was designed by Robin Olds when he was the gunnery group commander there circa 1957. There was a separate AGG patch for a while. Your patch is Japan made, here is the original German made version with cleaner text, though who knows how accurate this was. Also the AGG patch, which is also Japan made and huge.

 

Randy

[Remember Me]

I had a friend that was in the Airforce that was stationed  in Libya. He was a mechanic. I bought my 1952 M38 off of him. Thank you.