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Vietnam unofficial GAF Wing Sterling

 
$80.00
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P-1801
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These are museum quality reproductions, in sterling silver with a 24karat gold plate, of a wing that is incorrectly ID in some books as an aircrew for the P-3 Orion. The problem is that no one at the P-3 Museum has ever seen this wing as part of a P-3 crew badge. So now the question is what is this badge? In the meanwhile some have speculated that GAF was for German Air Force presented to pilots who trained here in the US, nope, so I found a Vietnam Marine who said it is an endearing term used by Marines (Give A F...) and could this be a Marine Air Crew wing? Well we all know Marines so is what this is.  There are two versions, this one has a filled design around the letters, the other is an open or cut out design around the letters. But alias it is not that colorful, this wing was made in Subic Bay by the gift shops just outside the base on Magsaysay Blvd and for contact workers from the Australian firm Government Aircraft Factory, GAF. Of course some of the Marines adopted this badge. The same jewelers who made thismade an entire series of squadron pins for P-3 crews, did we just come full circle.

 The wings are 2.8 inches wide.