PETERTHEEATER
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A contact on another forum in which I participate is trying to identify the unit displaying this uniform patch. The wearer was a relative and was known to be in the USAAF Glider Training Programme in WW2. Can anyone help please:
WHAT OUTFIT DOES THIS PATCH INDICATE
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USAAC.... Air Corps Pinwheel patch,printed on felt version.
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Early Pin-Wheel AAF HQ
Here are my numerous variations of the early pin-wheel design. This photo also has the overseas cap "roundel" in Air Corp colors to the top right and an officers collar B.O.S. from WWII, right.
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PETERTHEEATER
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Thanks,To be clear, this pinwheel patch indicates that the wearer worked in the US Army Air Force Headquarters?
Basically, it indicates that the wearer was a member of the Army Air Corps.
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PETERTHEEATER
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Thank you gentlemen for your responses.I shallpasson the information.
Just now tripped across this post. Although usually identified as a patch of the Army Air Corps, it's actually the patch of General Headquarters Air Force, an organization separate from the Air Corps, even though all it's personnel were assigned (by acto of Congress) to the Air Corps. Organized in March 1935, this was the first attempt to create a combat air arm that was independent of the central Air Corps control AND independent of Army field organizations. The Bureaucratic infighting nearly hobbled both organizations, a problem partially solved when Hap Arnold became commander of the Air Corps AND GHQAF. The real solution came in 1941 with the creation of the Army Air Forces (though personnel were still assigned - by acto of Congress - to the Air Corps, which no longer existed with a command structure.
Cheers,
Dana
Cheers,
Dana
