Hello   thanks Leigh for your experience with it. It does not look very confortable you’re right   maybe someone could decypher the date on the markings too     

Regarding the "angles" It is likely that the vet never noticed it either. The family did not seem to notice the mispelling of the last name on the Purple Heart and when I told them they seemed a bit taken aback. They had another buyer who then backed out after they informed him. Seems like the family never mentioned it. Perhaps they are all dyxlexic like me!   When I was assigned as an aeroscout pilot to the 11th ACR in 1983, I took my wife to an officer's Friday informal social. I introduced her to a fellow officer, a Captain, I being a 2nd LT at the time. She zoomed right in on his pilot's red/white "cALvary" nametag and asked him if he was a Baptist. He said, "no a Catholic, why? " She said," well, your name tag says CALvary!" He was so embarrased that he took the velcro nametag off and stuck it in his pocket. He had been wearing that name tag for nearly 3 years an NO ONE ever commented on the spelling which should have been CAValry!  SO hell's Angles or Hell's Angels! 

. From my shoebox collection.   I have had this USN jumper some years and unable to find any reason for the strange colouring of the patch, if anyone can, please jump in, comparison of standard patch shown,  is it just a manufacturing fault or something else.  Thanks           Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 28  2O25.    ….  

. Hi mikie,   perhaps a governmental big-brother is watching you . . . . . . . . that's weird the first time I have ever looked at governmental as two words Govern-Mental makes more sense now . . . . . . .  !!!     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 28  2O25.    ….

You are lucky. When I look in the mirror first thing in the mornings, I usually see Frankenstein’s monster looking back at me. 

See, there is interest. You are steering this topic in the right direction. 

. I have had this USN jumper some years and unable to find any reason for the strange colouring of the patch, if anyone can, please jump in, comparison of standard patch shown,  is it just a manufacturing fault or something else.  Thanks           thanks lewis.   ...

Very nice find.  

Very impressive find. Very interesting.

I finally found evidence that 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment are now wearing a new battalion-level organizational beret flash and it's new. Much like 2-506th's beret flash, 1-506th's mimics the design of their battalion's airborne background trimming vs their historical beret flash from the 1970s (first graphic below). Ver cool!