USAAF 1352nd Army Air Force Base Unit, Air Jungle Rescue Patch
This is a Burmese-made 1352nd Army Air Force Base Unit Air Jungle Rescue patch. The patch shows a five-pointed star bearing different symbols on each arm and reads UT VIRI VIVANT (That men may live). Circa 1944/5.
The 1352d AAF Base Unit (Search & Rescue) was organized 1 Dec 1944 at Tezgaon Airfield; Dacca, Bengal, India (now Dakka, Bangladesh), under the India-China Division of Air Transport Command. Moved to Mohanbari Airfield (Guwhati, Assam, India) some time in 1945 and was deactivated on 22 Dec 1945.
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