Group includes a round embroidered felt patch for the 8th Air force, a pair of major/lieutenant commander lapel insignia (gold embroidery on square brown leather backing), Eastern Command patch (embroidered felt, with a white star on a red star, wings to either side, and "EASTERN COMMAND/RUSSIA" surrounding at top and bottom), a patch for the 89th Fighter Squadron (fully embroidered, featuring a skull shooting lighting from its eyes, flames and clouds behind, on a spade-shaped background), and a Navy Group China/SACO laminated ID marked and fingerprinted for a Herbert W. Beck. A component of the 80th Fighter Group, aka the Burma Banshees, the 89th Squadron was assembled in New Jersey and deployed to the China-Burma-India Theater, operating P-40 Warhawks, P-38 Lightnings, and P-47 Thunderbolts from bases in India and Burma in support of the Allied "Hump" air supply corridor, engaging Japanese fighters and bombers, attacking Japanese logistics, and providing air support to Chinese and American forces. The Sino-American Cooperative Organization was a joint project of the U.S. Navy and the Nationalist Chinese, acting as an intelligence gathering/sharing organization and training center; available records do put a Herbert W. Beck as a lieutenant with the organization, though his exact role is unknown. The Eastern Command patch is chiefly associated with American pilots who worked to ferry Lend-Lease aircraft from the United States to the Soviet Union. Provenance: The Putnam Green/Sycamore Collection

Fine overall, with some creasing of the rank insignia, minimal staining on the 89th Squadron patch, and minor handling marks overall.