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Some WWII Royal South African Air Force Wings


Allan H.

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OK, so these really ought to go in the Africa section, but I have decided to put them here since the RSAAF was a part of the British Empire during WWII, wearing British RAF uniforms with South Africa nationality titles and brevets. These don't show up all that often. I feel fortunate to have the three examples that I am showing here. The top piece is hand embroidered and highly padded pilot's brevet. You can see a fair amount of wear to the wings.

The second wing is also a pilot brevet, but is machine embroidered

The bottom "half wing" was worn by observers who served as bombardiers and in other crew positions. THis wing is HAND EMBROIDERED, but the embroidery is so tight, that it really resembles machine embroidery.

 

Allan

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