They have amazing nose art painted on their back, and wonderful patches.

These WWII Flight Jackets can be seen at: WWII FLIGHT JACKETS For Sale
http://www.wwiijeepparts.com/ForSaleStore/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=1

Brian

United States Navy

(canvas) (canvas) (leather) NAS Atlanta, GA Naval Air Station Donald Duck Walt Disney duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	NAAS Crows Landing, CA duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	NAS Salton Sea, CA Donald Duck Walt Disney one for sale on bulletin boards	U. S. N. Naval Ordnance Inyokern, CA Donald Duck Walt Disney	USN Aviation Ord. Detachment Seal Beach, CA Donald Duck Walt Disney
USN Flight School,  NAS Jacksonville, FL Donald Duck Walt Disney	Advanced Gunnery School NAS Jacksonville, FL Donald Duck Walt Disney	USN LSO School Donald Duck Walt Disney	USN Gunnery School NAS Norman, OK Donald Duck Walt Disney	USN Intelligence,  SW Pacific Donald Duck Walt Disney
USN Air Sea Rescue,  NAS San Francisco, CA	USN Fleet Photo School SQ. Felix The Cat	USN  VF (N) TS     USN Night Fighter     Training School Squadron	Weapons Training Center USN NAS China Lake,  Inyokern, CA	USN Nav. E.O.D. Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bomb Disposal
USN Armed Guards onboard Merchant Marine vessels	USN Carrier Service Group	USS Archerfish SS311 Submarine	USS Enterprise CV-6 "The Big E"	USS Essex CV-9 VF9, VB9, VB15, VT15, VT83
USS Hornet  CV-8 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	USS Saratoga  CV-3 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	USS Satyr	USN CAG-1 Carrier Air Group duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	USN Patrol Wing #1, Repair Unit
(embroidered) (canvas) VD-1 USN FAPS-1 Photo SQ Fleet Air Photo Reconnaissance SQ duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(leather) (canvas) VS-41 VB-41 Date Designation Squadron Type Sep 1919 Pacific Fleet Air Detachment 15 Jun 1920 VT-5 torpedo & bombing squadron 07 Sep 1921 VP-4-1 patrol squadron 23 Sep 1921 VF-4 fighting squadron 01 Jul 1922 VF-1 fighting squadron 01 Jul 1927 VF-1B fighting squadron 01 Jul 1934 VB-2B bombing squadron 01 Jul 1937 VB-3 bombing squadron 01 Jul 1939 VB-4 bombing squadron 15 Mar 1941 VS-41 scouting squadron 01 Mar 1943 VB-41 bombing squadron 04 Aug 1943 VB-4 bombing squadron 15 Nov 1946 VA-1A attack squadron 02 Aug 1948 VA-14 attack squadron 15 Dec 1949 VF-14 fighter squadron 01 Dec 2001 VFA-14 strike-fighter squadron duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VJ-1	(canvas) serial #'rd (leather) VJ-1B duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VRF-1 Ferry Squadron
VT-1	VU-1	Weather Reconnaissance Squadron 1 Typhoon Chasers Donald Duck Walt Disney	Meteorological Squadron One Typhoon Chasers Donald Duck Walt Disney	ZP-1 Airship Patrol Squadron 1 (Lighter Than Air) Blimpron
ZW-1 Airship Patrol Wing 1 (Lighter Than Air) Blimpron	(leather) (canvas) VB-2 USS Hornet SB2C Hell Divers Big Bad Wolf Walt Disney duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VCS-2	VCS-2	VH-2 Dumbo
VJ-2	VO-2 Observation SQ. duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VPB-2 USN Sub Chase SQ. Donald Duck Walt Disney	(canvas) (canvas) VS-2 VB-10 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(leather) (leather) VS-2 VB-10 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here
(leather) (canvas) (canvas) VT-2 VTB-2 USS Lexington USS Hornet duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VT-2 USS Lexington USS Hornet	VU-2	Weather Reconnaissance Squadron 2 Typhoon Chasers "Barometrical Buzzards"	ZP-2  Airship Patrol Squadron 2 NAS (LTA) Lakehurst  (Lighter Than Air)
CAG-3  Carrier Air Group 3	VC-3  The "Iron Man" I served in VU/VC-3 1956 thru 1966. VU-3 designation was changed to VC-3 July 1, 1965, and as the Sea Duty side of the squadron had a patch (VU-3A, A= Detachment Alfa, which deployed aboard ships to perform Target Drone  duties) our new CO, Commander Carlson designed a patch for the parent squadron, the shore duty side. The design symbolizes strength (Iron Man), knowledge (Book, right hand), integrity (symbol held in left hand, is Nordic, the CO's heritage), the "V" was for valor.  Also one of the Ex-skippers advised me that the "Utility" on the banner was later changed to "Composite". As an aside VU/VC-3 originated as VJ-3 August 1939 at NAS North Island, San Diego, CA.  Regards,  Art Smoak, AMCS-AC (ret)	VCS-3	(leather) (canvas) (canvas) VF-3 VF-6 Felix The Cat duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(canvas) (canvas) (leather) VO-3 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here
VS-3 see also VB-5 USS Saratoga 1941 USS Yorktown (CV-5) 1942 Battle of Midway Cactus Air Force duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(canvas) (leather) VT-3 Flyin' Dragons duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VU-3	VU-3A	ZP-3 Airship Patrol Squadron 3 NAS (LTA) Lakehurst (Lighter Than Air)
VB-4 early war USS Ranger see also VP-23	VD-4	VJ-4	VT-4 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VU-4
ZP-4 Airship Patrol Squadron 4 NAS (LTA) Lakehurst  (Lighter Than Air)	VB-5 see also VS-3 USS Saratoga 1941 USS Yorktown (CV-5) 1942 Battle of Midway duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(leather) (canvas) (canvas) VB-5 USS Yorktown duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(leather) (canvas) VB-5B  (VB-2) (VB-11) duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VC-5
VCS-5	VD-5,  VC-61, VP-61, VJ-61	(leather) VF-5 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VS-5	VT-5
VB-6 USS Enterprise  duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VCS-6	VF-6 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-6(USCG) early war VPB-6 (USCG) late war Patrol Squadron Six Patrol Bombing Squadron Six  Argentia, Newfoundland The only aviation squadron operated by the US Coast Guard	VS-6 (VB-13)
VS-6 USS Enterprise duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VT-6	VBF-7	VCS-7	VF-7 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here
VJ-7	VP-7 early VP-7F to VP-11 to VP-21	VP-7 late VP-7F to VP-11 to VP-21	VB-8	VC-8
VCS-8	VT-8	VB-9 USS Essex Bugs Bunny	VC-9 Composite Squadron, Post-war Insignia* WWII logo Wanted*	(cloth) VF-9 "Hell Cats" "Cat o' Nine's" "Flying Circus"  on the USS Yorktown Valencia's "Flying Circus" - the highest scoring fighter division in Navy history with 50 Kills James French "Fighting Nine" on the USS Essex
VC-10 Composite SQ. Oxnard NAS USS Gambier Bay (CVE 73) USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE 70)	VJ-10	VT-10	VB-11	VJ-11 Pluto Walt Disney
VT-11	ZP-11 Airship Patrol Squadron 11 (Lighter Than Air)	ZP-12 Airship Patrol Squadron 12 NAS (LTA) Lakehurst (Lighter Than Air)	VB-13 (VS-6) duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(canvas) (canvas) (leather) VC-13 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here
VF-13	VJ-13	VT-13 USS Franklin - 'Big Ben'	VP-14 VP-52 VP-72	VBF-15 "Satan's Playmates" USS Lexington CV-16 F-4v Corsair
VB-15  USS Essex USS Lexington- Late WWII duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VF-15	VT-15	VT-15 USS Essex	VB-16 USS Lexington CV-16
VF-16	VJ-16	VP-16 (early war) VPB-16 (late war)	USN Blimpron-17 (Lighter Than Air)	USN MTB 17 ron Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 17
(canvas) (canvas) (leather) VF-17 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VJ-17	VP-17	VT-17	VT-19 Bob Burns gave the squadron a lion cub. On the patch the cub is holding the musical "bazooka" that Burns used in his act, while riding a torpedo. It went to the LA Zoo.
VB-20	VF-20	VPB-20 The "Screaming Indian" squadron emblem was originally used first by VS-2 and then by VS-10. On March 1, 1943, the Navy redesignated VS-10 as VB-20 and assigned it to Air Group 10. VB-20 used the "Screaming Indian" patch until August 1944. After August 1944 it changed to the "Tough Kitties" patch with a cat and skull design. I think it was late in the war after moving to the USS Lexington that they went to the "Slow Time Turtle" patch, but I am not 100% on that.	VS-20	VT-20 USS Enterprise, USS Lexington
VS-21 Bugs Bunny	VT-21 TORPEDO SQD-21	ZP-21 Airship Patrol Squadron 21 NAS (LTA) Richmond, TX (Texas & Louisiana) NAS (LTA) Banana River, FL (Daytona Beach, Key West, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico,  4 NAF's in Cuba	USN CASU-22 Carrier Air Service Unit duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(canvas) (embroidered) VP-22 "Black Griffin" "Skinny Dragons" Pearl Harbor, TH HI The 1st squadron Designated Patrol Squadron FOUR (VP-4) was established in 1928 and was based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  Re-designated Patrol Squadron TWENTY-TWO (VP-22) in 1938, the squadron was nearly destroyed during the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941.  Following the attack, the squadron was reformed, refitted, and called to duty in World War II.  The squadron lost all but one aircraft while defending the Philippines, which lead to the disestablishment of the squadron.
VT-22	ZP-22 Airship Patrol Squadron 22 NAS (LTA) Richmond, TX (Lighter Than Air)  Texas, Louisiana	VP-23 Early war	VP-23 late war	ZP-23 Airship Patrol Squadron 23 (Lighter Then Air)  Jamaica, Panama
VP-24 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-24	(leather) (canvas) VF-27 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VS-27	(canvas) (leather) (letterhead) VT-27 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here
VF-29 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-31	VP-31	VS-31  Scouting Squadron 31, (early) Squantum Naval Air Station, Squantum, Massachusetts	VT-31 Woody Woodpecker
USN ZP-31 Blimp SQ. NAS Santa Ana (Tustin), CA 1 Oct 1942 - 15 Nov 1946	VP-32	VF-33 "The Hellcats"	VPB-33 Approved: 17 April 1944 - 7 April 1945  decommissioned  : Black cat, armed with telescope and depth charge, and superimposed on an enlarged cat's eye, to designate one of the "Black Cat" squadrons. Colors: Field - black; Eye - orange and lemon yellow; Cat - black; Ear lining, eyelid, eyeball - yellow; Pupil - green; Telescope - blue and white; Depth charge - light blue with black markings.	VPB-34
(canvas) (leather) VF-35 'Grim Reapers' duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VS-36 Scouting Squadron 36 (early war) VS-36 (late war) Walt Disney duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VS-37 Anti-Submarine CBI	VB-41	VP-41 VP-21
(leather) (canvas) VS-41 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VT-41	VS-42	(canvas) (canvas) (leather) VPB-44 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-45 Goofy Walt Disney
VF-50	VP-52	VF-53 Iron Angels	VF-53 USS Ssaratoga duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-54
VPB-61	VP-63 The Mad Cat Squadron MAD = Magnetic Anomaly Detection Port Lyautey, Morrocco	VP-63 The Mad Cat Squadron MAD = Magnetic Anomaly Detection Port Lyautey, Morrocco	VS-64	VC-69 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here
VC-70 Composite Squadron "Scorpions"	US NAVY VF-71  Established: JULY 1, 1939 as VB- 7  Redesignated: NOV 5, 1940 as VF-71 Disestablished: JAN 7, 1943 VF-71  Late war design HELL' S ANGELS USS Wasp A second VF-71 was created soon after with a new design with the nickname "HELL' S ANGELS" duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-71 (early war) VPB-71 (late war)	VS-71	USN VC-72 "Ball the Jack" I have a “Ball the Jack” patch that belonged to my father, Paul J. Sporer He served in the Navy in WWII and was gunner on a torpedo bomber. He was part Composite Squad 72 in the Asiatic Pacific from September 1944 till December 1945, when he was discharged. - Dan Sporer
VS-72 Centaur Vampire	VP-73
VT-74	VA-75 "Sunday Punchers"	VT-75 "The Fish Hawks"	VC-79 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VBF-80 "Scrappers" Air Group 80 Corsairs, Hellcats  USS Ticonderoga,  USS Hancock Ream Field, San Ysidro, CA July, 1945 Holtville, CA USS Ranger, San Diego, CA Post-war - Jan 4, 1946 F6F-5 Hellcats USS Boxer Saipan
VP-81	VT-81 "The Uninvited" USS Wasp Oct 44 - Mar 1945	VP-82	VT-82 "Devil's Diplomats" TBM-3 Avenger  (no Pic) Fighter Squadron (VF-82) "Fighting Fools" F6F-5 Hellcat  (no Pic) VB-82 "The Battering Rams" SB2C Helldiver  Carrier Air Group Eighty-Two: VF-82 VB-82 VT-82 VMF-112 VMF-123 History Sinking of the Battleship YAMATO	VBF-83
VT-83 USS Essex	VF-84	VT-84 USS Bunker Hill	VC-86 USS Bismarck Sea aka Bismark Sea note	VT-87 USS Wasp
VF-91	VFN-91 Night Bats	VTN-91 Night	VB-92 serial #'d duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VBF-93
VF-93 "The Polecats"	VBF-94	VPB-94	VBF-95 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VB-99 Donald Duck Walt Disney
VF-99 Walt Disney	VS-99 Donald Duck Walt Disney duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VT-99 Walt Disney duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-101	VPB-102
(decal) (canvas) (cloth) VP-102	FASRON-103	VP-103 Bugs Bunny	VSBN-103	VP-105
VB-109 VPB-109 VP-109 VB-109 Est. Aug, 2, 1943 Redesignated VPB-109  Oct 1, 1944 Disestablished Oct 12, 1945 Flew PB4Y-2B (B-24) carrying anti-shipping radar-homing Bat  Glide Bombs (ASM-N-2) first combat use of the Bat Valikpapan Harbor, Borneo	FASRON-110 Donald Duck Walt Disney	VB-110	FASRON-112	VP-113
VF-114	VP-114	VPB-116	VP-117	VP-118
(decal) (leather) VP-121	VP-122	VPB-123	VF-124	VP-124
VP-125 VPB-125 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(embroidered) (canvas) VPB-128	VP-129 "Alley Oop"	VPB-133	VPB-135
VPB-136 VP-16, VP-21, VP-41 Attu & Kiska, Alaska	VPB-139	VP-143	VP-144	VPB-148
VP-149 duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VP-150	VPB-151	VF-171 'Aces'	VF-194 'Yellow Devils'
VPB-200	VP-201	(leather) (decal) VP-203 Pluto Walt Disney duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	(decal on leather) (canvas) (canvas) VPB-204	VP-205
VP-209	VP-210	(leather) (leather) (canvas) VP-211 Dumbo Walt Disney duplicate vintage patch available for sale or trade ~ click here	VPB-213 Bugs Bunny	Aircraft Repair Unit Joint USN, AAF, Merchant Marines "Ivory Soap" Water Wings
		VS-72 'Centaur Vampire'	VP-101 Just a note for you. This is a drawing of our Black Cat Squadron with the "Black Widow VP-101 insignia. The original from VP-101 before WWII came from the Philippines. This was when VP-22,VP-21 went to Perth, Australia in Late December after the Pearl Attack on the 7th of Dec., to become all of VP-101. All three squadrons became VP-101..... The VP-101 Black Widow Spider of our squadron came later when we did our Black Catting in 1943 and late in 1942. VP-101 became VPB-29 in August of 1944. Thought you might enjoy or patch and hope you can locate one. I gave mine away in 1951 when I gave my flight jacket to our local mission and did not take my insignia off. Larry Katz	US NATIONAL INSIGNIA (History of Changes)
		NOT WWII
VW-1	VW-2	VW-3	VW-4	VW-11
VW-12	VW-13	VW-14	VW-15	VW-16

radio message from Admiral Nimitz to fleet, "Cease offensive operations against Japanese forces...continue search and patrols...Maintain defensive security...beware of treachery or last moment attacks by enemy forces or individuals."

William M. Melvin, DC (retired) 8 Air Medals, DFC, Navy Unit Commendation, China Service Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal.

Dear Sir,
Thank you for your distinguished service to our country.  You have my utmost respect & gratitude.  Here is the best pic I have of this patch.  I am sorry for the moth holes. The moths liked the patch as well it seems. I wish you a recovery and long life.  If you ever get to So. Calif., please let me know.
Sincerely,
Brian

Hi, Brian -
While I was in our den this morning, reading  the Nashville :Tennessean", my wife of 52 years was checking our e-mail and she called me to our office (actually, an unused bedroom).  When I got there she said " I think you'll like to read an e-mail from Brian."
And I said, "THAT's OUR PATCH"!  Brian, I want to THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SENDING THE PHOTO OF OUR SQUADRON PATCH.  I intend to print it out on a slick poster board, frame it and hang it beneath a large photo of our VBF-93 squadron taken aboard the USS BOXER (CV-21) off T'Sintao, China in Nov. 1945. I'll try to scan that photo and e-mail it to you, okay.  I hope it turns out okay. Thanks again - If the photo turns out, I am the tall guy with the sky behind my head just to the right of the lower prop blade of #34 Corsair.

Brian,
I promise you that I won't "bug" you, but let me explain to you this:
VBF-93 was my second Carrier Cruise.  After graduation from Corpus Christi, my first assignment was to a dive bomber training syllabus at N.A.S. Jacksonville, FL (Cecil Field) flying SBD "Dauntless" dive bombers.  I was hopeful of going to the fleet in dive bombers as the SBD's saw the most combat at Cotal Sea and at Midway.  When I reported to the pilot pool at San Diego I was told that the Pacific Fleet had all the replacement SBD pilots that it needed. so I was sent to Seattle, WA to join a Composite Squadron (VC-82) just forming in Dec. 1943.  After transition to F4F's (actually the GM version, called FM-2's) we trained at Klamath Falls, OR and at Holtville CA , then joined the USS ANZIO (CVE-57) at San Diego. We shipped out of N.A.S. Ford Island, Hawaii and were active at Leyte Gulf, Mindoro, and Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima and ChiChi Jima in the Bonins.

My son and my namesake (who goes by Bill) is a Senior Systems Analyst for Northrop-Grumman Corp at Huntsville, AL.  He, with the help of my wife (and unbeknowing to me) took it upon himself to prepare a website to commemorate the pilots of VC-82.  There are 4 photo galleries so the site is slow to download, but you might find it interesting. See My son's website (My Dad the War Hero!) at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bmmelvin/warhero/ww2main.htm
Regards,
William M. Melvin
792 Michael Terrace
Lawrenceburg, TN 38464
vidocmel@bellsouth.net

Hello, Thanks for the link to the website about you. I loved the website. It brings tears to my eyes that guys like you and your contemporaries had the courage and the guts to go where you went, do what you did, and endure what you had to to protect our way of life. I loved the website and have added our correspondence and links to your website to my USN page.
Thanks again,
Brian

Hi Jon,
Thanks for the order.  As I read it I grimaced and expected the worse as I read about your dad's stroke.... I'm glad he is still with us and doing better.  Please wish him a Happy Birthday and thank him again for me for his service.  It boggles my mind that there are kids shooting up their high schools today, when 65 years ago kids the same age were flying extremely dangerous missions 1000's of miles away from home, and 100's of miles from land.  They are the greatest generation.

I would like to add your dad's photo and info to my website under his patch.  It really is stories like his that need to be preserved for future generations.
I'll get the patch right out to you.
Thanks, Brian

Hello,
Glad you found me.  ;-)  What a great story!  I am glad he made it and that you guys are paying tribute to him & his buddies with the model. It was just a few months ago that I sold the last VC-86 Bismark Sea SQ patch. Here's a larger photo of it.  Feel free to copy it and save it.  Yeah,  it's good to see the huge & many sacrifices made by so many guys isn't forgotten. It sounds like you guys have a corral full of Jeeps & weasels.  Very cool.  I had a M-29C as well, right after school, but the landlord of the apartment Bldg made me sell it.  bummer.   Yeah,  it's good to see the huge & many sacrifices made by so many guys isn't forgotten.  That's terrible that the Flight jackets burned up.   Ohh  just makes me sick to think about.
Let me know if I can help anymore,
Brian

Brian-
I was viewing your website for NAVY Squadron Patches.  My uncle Ed Gardner of IL was in WWII Navy and he gave me his cloth squadron patch for the Hell Razors. I believe he did communications in the back of the plane? I know growing up he was really into hamn radios and built his own. He and His father built & designed their own Hamm Radios and his father designed and supervised instillation of turbine power plants for Westinghouse  I did not see this patch on your website.  Would you like for me to send you a couple of PDF photos of it for your website? It is in Mint Cond. If so what is your e-mail address for sending the 2 pdf photos?
Walt Disney even got into the act and drew up bat cartoon figures lineage of squadrons named "Hell Razors" (sic): VB-81, VA-13A, VA-134, VF-174, and VA-174. Disney studios went on to produce some 1200 military insignia of all types during the second World War.

I'm not sure if these images are good enough for you I took them with a camera, but I could do it again on the scanner if you need me to. Let me know what you think of it. I could ask my dad if he knew what kind of plane my uncle flew in. I know he was at pearl harbor when it was bombed. My parents should have all of his old photos so I assume there must be photos of WWII in there.
Scott Zamzow
Milwuakee WI

Hello,
thanks for writing.  ;-)  Yes, I'd love a high res photo in jpg format please.  6-7 inches would be perfect.  email address to send it to is this one.
All the best,
Brian

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