Rare WW2 828th Bomb Squadron Patch, Italian Md, OUTSTANDING, Removed From Jacket
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828th Bomb Squadron patch, used , worn , salty.Italian made incised leather beauty!Took this out of my collection. Thinning down some areas...Approximately 5 1/2" .. 1000% right. Beauty! Awesome theatre made patch, Great combat history..
Lots of character. ... no disappointments here.A really classic WW2 design.
Look who showed at the front door for dinner, bringing a special desert he whipped up just for the enemies of liberty!
Hist...ory( from Wikipedia, so please verify history if interested.)The squadron was activated at Fairmont Army Air Field, Nebraska as one of the four that made up the 485th Bombardment Group. It trained with Consolidated B-24 Liberators until March 1944, when it deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. The squadron's ground echelon arrived at its base at Venosa Airfield, Italy in April, but when the air echelon arrived in theater, it remained in Tunisia for additional training.[2][3]The squadron entered combat in May 1944, and primarily flew long rangestrategic bombing missions against targets in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, bombing marshalling yards, oil refineries, airfields, heavy industry, and other strategic objectives. The squadron was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for continuing an attack on an oil refinery near Vienna, Austria on 26 June 1944 despite heavy fighter opposition.[3]The 828th was occasionally diverted from the strategic campaign to carry out some support and interdiction operations. It struck bridges, harbors, and troop concentrations in August 1944 to aid with Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France. It also hit communications lines and other targets during March and April 1945 to support the advance of the British Eighth Army in northern Italy.[3]The unit departed Italy in May 1945.
Lots of character. ... no disappointments here.A really classic WW2 design.
Look who showed at the front door for dinner, bringing a special desert he whipped up just for the enemies of liberty!
Hist...ory( from Wikipedia, so please verify history if interested.)The squadron was activated at Fairmont Army Air Field, Nebraska as one of the four that made up the 485th Bombardment Group. It trained with Consolidated B-24 Liberators until March 1944, when it deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. The squadron's ground echelon arrived at its base at Venosa Airfield, Italy in April, but when the air echelon arrived in theater, it remained in Tunisia for additional training.[2][3]The squadron entered combat in May 1944, and primarily flew long rangestrategic bombing missions against targets in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, bombing marshalling yards, oil refineries, airfields, heavy industry, and other strategic objectives. The squadron was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for continuing an attack on an oil refinery near Vienna, Austria on 26 June 1944 despite heavy fighter opposition.[3]The 828th was occasionally diverted from the strategic campaign to carry out some support and interdiction operations. It struck bridges, harbors, and troop concentrations in August 1944 to aid with Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France. It also hit communications lines and other targets during March and April 1945 to support the advance of the British Eighth Army in northern Italy.[3]The unit departed Italy in May 1945.
