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Date Posted: 09:14:21 07/09/05 Sat
Author: Bill Edmondson
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Can someone help me identify this patch?

I picked up a patch recently from a collection of WW2 items sent home from occupied Germany in 1946. The collector was a real pack rat and traded the patch for a a few Nazi items he had duplicates of while in Germany. He swears the patch is WW2 vintage, sent home from the theater of action, and not a reproduction. The patch has been in an album for 50+ years and looks virtually new.

The patch is a yellow oval with a mosquito riding a blue bomb while holding a steering wheel. The bomb has an eye and a grimaced mouth, 2 spindely arms with boxing gloves, and 2 pink aircraft wings sticking out of the sides.

The mosquito is white with 4 brown legs w/ shoes, 2 brown arms holding a white steering wheel, and wearing a brown leather helmet with flight goggles.

I have never seen this unit / squadron patch before and am very curious as to what it might be. Can anyone help me or steer me in the right direction? I can forward a digital image once I get home and have access to my digital camera. Thanks loads.

Bill

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