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Soo, he was in the 415th or 422nd NFS, stationed in the Med and later
England/Belgium...?
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The
415th sounds really familiar,... his flight jacket had an emblem
of an owl(bird of some kind) holding a tommygun looking around in the dark
with a flashlight or a candle.

From this iste, 415th or 420th patches seem to match the description :
http://members.aol.com/brimiljeep/We...hAAF2Page.html

Damian