USAF 54th Air Rescue Squadron Patch
This has been the toughest hard to find patch ever in my collection! It took me 12 years seeking for these patch around the globe and finally got this late version of an iconic patch!
Made in Japan. Circa 1962/5'.
The squadron was first activated by MATS in November 1952 as the 54th Air Rescue Squadron at Goose Bay Airport, Labrador, Canada when Air Rescue Service expanded its squadrons into groups. At Goose, the new squadron assumed the personnel, equipment and mission of Flight D, 6th Air Rescue Squadron, which was simultaneously discontinued. The squadron performed search and rescue missions in Labrador and Greenland and the surrounding waters. The squadron was briefly inactivated in June 1960 but was restored to active duty at Goose the following June. Equipped with SB-17Gs and SB-29s as a component of the Air Rescue Service. Re-equipped with SC-54Ds and SA-16s during the mid-1950s and operated these until deactivated in 1966 following the USAF's withdrawal from Goose Bay.
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