United States. A Theater-Made Fourteenth Air Force "Flying Tigers" Usaaf Jacket Patch, C.1943 Newly Listed Brigadier General Hugh Bryan Hester

Brigadier General Hugh Bryan Hester (ASN: 0-8405)

1938 and had his rating changed from Fireman Second Class to Fireman First Class two days later

measuring 38 mm (w) x 28 mm (h)

0mm(width) x 68

encircled by silvered twisted wire

United States. A Theater-Made Fourteenth Air Force "Flying Tigers" Usaaf Jacket Patch, C.1943 Newly Listed Brigadier General Hugh Bryan HesterFabricated from gold colored bullion wire, in a zipper like pattern, with red, white and black embroidery, on a royal blue silk base, the base with a royal blue embroidered raised border, illustrating the Flying Tigers insignia of a winged tiger surmounted by the USAAF star, with a light blue cotton mesh backer, measuring 130 mm in diameter, very light soiling evident on the obverse but shows through on the cotton mesh backer, without interruptions in