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ww2 us 514th Bomb Squadron patch

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514th Bomb Squadron, 376th Group. Incised Painted Leather. Made in Italy.  Both are RARE.

Operated with Ninth AF from bases in the Middle East, Nov 1942-Sep 1943, and with Twelfth AF from Tunisia, Sep-Nov 1943. Attacked shipping in the Mediterranean and harbor installations in Libya, Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy to cut enemy supply lines to Africa Participated in the famed low-level assault on oil refineries at Ploesti and received another DUC. Moved to Italy in Nov 1943 and operated with Fifteenth AF until Apr 1945. Engaged primarily in long-range missions to targets in Italy, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary