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Hi Bill nice patch thanks for posting it ,it nice to see the original patches as I am sure other members agree .
All the best Jeff
All the best Jeff
Andrew
Well-Known Member
Hey Bill, that is a great story- you must have been blown away by that! What a beautiful patch, I presume it is Aust. made and hopefully not pulled off a Jacket. It's nice to see the real thing. Thanks for posting this.
This is my only original, a shoulder patch- it has a small unexplained hole in the centre.
I was going to email you with this but since I'm here take a look at the National Archives of Australia and log in as a guest and do a search for "380th" and you'll find several references to documents in the collection. Most of the content on the site can be accessed for a fee per document but if someone has already requested a scan of any docs they put them up for anyone to access.
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/record ... index.aspx
For instance I came across an original doc in a folder that contains details of RAAF personnel killed in USAAF accidents, many of which of course involve A/C from the 380th. I was thinking that there may be family members of those 380th crew who may have been involved who might like to get some further detail about what may have happened to an aircraft and weren't aware of this record. It goes to show what a dangerous occupation it was going up in one of these aircraft.
I passed this onto Barbara Gotham last week- haven't heard from here yet so don't know if she got it.
I was recently wondering how hard it might be to find a patch company here who might be able to do a version of these...
This is my only original, a shoulder patch- it has a small unexplained hole in the centre.
I was going to email you with this but since I'm here take a look at the National Archives of Australia and log in as a guest and do a search for "380th" and you'll find several references to documents in the collection. Most of the content on the site can be accessed for a fee per document but if someone has already requested a scan of any docs they put them up for anyone to access.
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/record ... index.aspx
For instance I came across an original doc in a folder that contains details of RAAF personnel killed in USAAF accidents, many of which of course involve A/C from the 380th. I was thinking that there may be family members of those 380th crew who may have been involved who might like to get some further detail about what may have happened to an aircraft and weren't aware of this record. It goes to show what a dangerous occupation it was going up in one of these aircraft.
I passed this onto Barbara Gotham last week- haven't heard from here yet so don't know if she got it.
I was recently wondering how hard it might be to find a patch company here who might be able to do a version of these...
