USAF 37th Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Squadron / Jolly Green / Wild Bunch Patch Set
Extremely rare, hard to find!
-"In 1972 DaNang, Denny Borzak started this one quiet evening in the Jolly Inn. Brought with him Bear and a few others. They walked in and starting throwing cups of liquor at every one. Game on. Liquor was flowing that evening, with most of it not going down the gullet. Great memories and times..."- Charles R.
Activated at Da Nang AB, RVN in 1966 with primary responsibility for the recovery of downed aircrew from North Vietnam, Laos, and the Gulf of Tonkin the Squadron operated HU-16s, HC-130s HH-3s and HH-53s with two detachments at Udorn RTAFB. In August 1967 it replaced most of its HH-3s with HH-53s and continued conducting hazardous deep penetration rescue missions under intense enemy fire. In 1970 it participated in the abortive Son Tay prison rescue mission (Operation 'Ivory Coast') and on November 30th 1972 it was deactivated leaving two HH-43Fs at Da Nang as Det.7 of the 40th ARRS.
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I am looking for both of those patches, my grandfather Jack Rittichier was shot down and went missing for 30 years, I can not find those patches anywhere
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