USAF Patch Bomb c 416 BW Bombardment Wing AMMS Missile Squadron

USAF Patch Bomb CONUS 416 Bombardment Wing Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron B 52 GAM 77 Hound Dog And GAM 72 Quail Air Launched Cruise Missiles 1963 Griffiss AFB Fully embroidered cut edge 107mm by 92mm four and one quarter inches by three and five eighth inches.

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4039 Strategic Wing began to equip its B 52 bombers with GAM 77 Hound Dog and the GAM 72 Quail air launched cruise missiles in 1962 4039 Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron in November 1962 to maintain the ALCM missiles. 4039 AMMS was redesignated 416 Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron on 1 February 1963 at the same time as 4039 Strategic Wing was redesignated 416 Bombardment Wing. 416 AMMS was inactivated on 30 September 1974 with the phasing out of the Hound Dog and Quail ALCMs.

This patch dates from 1963.