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Seeking B-17 jacket patches

Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:37 pm

I am hunting for B-17 jacket patches.

Here's what I have now:
Chuckie
Yankee Lady
Sentimental Journey
Aluminum Overcast
Fuddy Duddy (from Geneseo)
Liberty Belle
Texas Raiders (a nice older one!)
Sally B (also an older one!)
Pink Lady *and* Mother And Country (two names, same airplane! -- thanks to CrewDawg)
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby
50th Anniversary 1935 - 1985

I am looking for:
Thunder Bird
Memphis Belle (the real one)
The Movie Memphis Belle
Miss Angela
Nine O Nine
Fuddy Duddy (from Lyon Air Museum)
Champaign Lady
any other interesting B-17 patches

I assume there will be some kind of 75th Anniversary patch coming out, perhaps at Thunder Over Michigan. I'm hoping that someone on the Chuckie crew will bring one back for me. (CrewDawg?)

I'm not expecting "freebies". I'll pay a fair price plus postage. Please PM me if you can help.
Last edited by K5DH on Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Re: Seeking B-17 jacket patches

Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:05 pm

That’s a neat idea, I’ve never thought to do that and wish I’d had, now. I’ve only ever bought patches for specific airplanes I’ve flown on even though I’ve seen almost all the flying B-17s in the world today.
The Museum of Flight in Seattle never made a Boeing Bee patch that I know of, as I’ve been to the museum many times since they completed the restoration. A “real Memphis Belle” patch would likely be best found on eBay, plenty of them have been made over the years. I found one here: http://www.memphis-belle.com/catalog/Embroidered_Patches.html The easiest way to get some of the others is to go to the specific plane websites. For example, the “909” patch can be gotten here:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/px_patchesandpins.htm
I bought mine after my first ride on 909, so mine isn’t for sale, but getting one is easy.
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