Uncle's patch from USAAF from WWII
- Thread starter sandcrab
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- 14 Mar 2002
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Welcome to the forum! This seems to be one of the "blood chits" used by US aviators in China. It should be Chinese; the seal-like script looks curious. I hope our experts can shed more light on this particular patch.
- 6 Mar 2003
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It looks like gibberish to me. I'll be surprised if it's spelling out anything understandable. It looks like somebody was looking at seals or some such to make similar characters as a lark. If the goal is to convey something like "I come in peace and am fighting our mutual enemy" then it would be written in accessible, normal characters like those shown on the Wikipedia page.
- 6 Mar 2003
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It looks like they were trying to copy something like this. Basically copying characters without knowing anything about the language they were copying. But even this one looks suspect (a copy made by somebody who doesn't know Chinese).
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