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Thank you for viewing my personal collection of us army military insignia. World war ii army air corps military patches and pins. Later, it was engaged primarily in training replacements for combat units. I got them from an old collection of some early and ww2 patches. In june of 1941, it was renamed the united states army air forces.
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