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IDENTIFIED
Burma / Myanmar pilot. Same as #3, though slight variations.
Information still required on era of this wing's use.
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IDENTIFIED Chilean Navy,
Administration Officer, not a flight qualification badge. Pilots
are marked by the star at the centre. Red=Army, Blue=Navy,
Green=Police. Identification from "Wings and Things" Vol
2, #3, page 27, summer 1988. Note: there are many Chilean badges
which are effectively "branch of service" badges, the
central device of the "wing" indicating the discipline,
the colour indicating service
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IDENTIFIED Burma / Myanmar pilot.
Same as #1, though slight variations. Information still required
on era of this wing's use.
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Believed to be Portugese, pupose unknown
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IDENTIFIED United States Navy
Aviation Aerographer's Mate rate. "The Aerographer was in
charge of meteorological readings as it related to aviation. The
fact that it is cut out like this could have meant it was a rate
for a non-PO man who simply had it sewn on at the sleeve. Or it
was cut out of a PO rate. Either way, it is bullion and exactly
the same as the one I had which dated from about the 60's
(although the rate was in use in WWII)."
Identified by Tod
Rathbone of Rathbone Museum
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April 2nd 2003
Chris Langley
French pin
Drago Paris
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Chris Langley
French pin
Drago Paris
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IDENTIFIED. Current wings of an
Egyptian Air Foirce Pilot. Identified by MP.
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Apparently a naval cap badge with possible flight involvement
AMATHUS at centre. Proper ID needed
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Believed to be Bulgarian. Purpose and use unknown. Proper ID
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image indecipherable but
Cryllic text stamp
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Known to be Bulgarian,
issued through 1930's and 1940's and commonly seen on air force
uniforms but purpose and use unknown. It is NOT the Air Force
Branch of Service badge and it is NOT the Bulgarian pilot badge of
that era. It is most commonly seen on officer graduation
photographs and may relate to that. The badge is most commonly
found appearing silver coloured, but originally was washed in gold
which quickly deteriorated. Proper ID needed
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April 1st 2003
Chris Langley
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Believed to be Czech, purpose and use unknown. Proper ID
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Commonwealth, presumably naval or coast guard. Proper ID needed
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IDENTIFIED Egyptian, probably
from the 1920-30 era. identified by René of Falconet Wings
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IDENTIFIED Some examples of this
badge have been seen with the French jeweller FIX name attached.
While these badges do not conform to the authorised pattern for a
military pilot, it is possible that Bijou FIX created some badges
to be worn as sweethearts. I believe this badge should be seen as
a sweetheart badge rather than a variant of an authorised badge.
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IDENTIFIED Identified by several
sources as being a German Automobile Club badge. This is not an
aviation related badge.
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Appears
to be an artillery spotting cap badge. Proper ID needed
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Appears to have similarities to Hungarian heraldry, St
Stephen's Crown and general finish. Purpose and use unknown.
Proper ID needed
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Appears to be of the post 1953 Italian type, purpose and use
unknown. Proper ID needed
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IDENTIFIEDThe crest/flag is
Jordanian, but further positive identification of this item is
required. It may be a "false" wing. Identification by
René of Falconet Wings
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IDENTIFIED December 17th 2004 28th 2004.
Provided by John Vargas. This is a South Korean Master Pilot badge, typical of those worn during the Korean war era
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IDENTIFIED August 28th 2004.
Provided by Erwin Kenis of Belgium. This is an epaulette
badge of the Belgian Territorial Airfield Defence. Worn between
1951-60, gold for officers, silver for senior NCO's and bronze for
others.
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Similar
to Mexican naval pilot badge of WW2. However, different. Possible
cap badge? Proper ID needed
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similar to, but differently detailed than US naval wing. Proper ID
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pilot, possibly "senior" grade. Proper ID needed
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Believed to be Brazilian, purpose and use unknown. Proper ID
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IDENTIFIEDProvided by Joe
Weingarten . US WW2 ROTC pilot. Confirmation evidence still sought
as this appears to be based on a USAAF Observer type badge.
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IDENTIFIED. Zambia. Era remains
unclear. Identified by Bill Windrum and Roy Thompson
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Malawi. Proper ID needed
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April 18th 2003
Chris Langley
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IDENTIFIED. in the
1960-70 era, the CIA Air America, operating out of Thailand , took
civilian trained pilots and taught them specifically on gliders.
The gliders were towed to within reasonable distance of a place
where something needed to be delivered in total silence and at
night.....these gliders (freight, not passenger) would then lose
their load over the target in the silence and darkness of night
and then head back to a pickup zone at some safe distance.
I do
not know if the gliders were recovered or anything like that. The
whole operation was very clandestine and there were only a small
handful of these pilots at any one time........this wing is the
one they wore on their flying suits........there were two pilots
on each glider, senior and junior......the star above representing
the senior man.
Information provided by Paul Souza.
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IDENTIFIED 28th
August by Erwin Kenis of Belgium. According to one of my
reference-books this is a French Military Aviation cap badge of
the 11th North African formation (it is not clear to me if this
was a squadron or wing)
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IDENTIFIED. Cuban lapel pin
for a member of the "Federacion Aerea Nacional" which
means..... National Aero Federation. An aviation
union..
Information provided by Frank Cuadrado, Cuban Wing
Collector .
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Robert MacLean
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Windrum Collection / Jim Howey
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silk screened onto stiffened canvas. "Sew marks" are
obvious. This badge is visibly and obviously appropriately old,
yet no reference to it can be found. If anyone has seen these
before or has any information relating to them, please let us
know. A similar silk screened Austalian off-pattern wing (without
crown) will be uploaded shortly.