All five patches are of a pattern used by a U.S. Army Air Corps/Army Air Force bombardment squadron during World War II. 1) 486th Squadron (340th Bomb Group) patch, embroidered on white cloth, with a design of Bugs Bunny preparing to throw a bomb. 2) 760th Squadron (460th Bomb Group) patch, carved and painted leather, with a weeping vulture perched on a bomb. 3) 2nd Squadron (22nd Bomb Group) patch, embroidered on white and brown felt, with a red, white and blue stylized bird on a white diamond. 4) 338th Squadron (96th Bomb Group) patch, embroidered on blue felt, with a golden bomb being dropped straight into a brown barrel. 5) 436th Squadron (formerly the 88th Aero Squadron, 88th Observer Squadron, and 88th Reconnaissance Squadron, attached to 7th Bomb Group c.1936-1946) patch, leather-on-leather construction with a black bucking bronco with rider on a yellow field, over four black and seven silver stars. Provenance: The Putnam Green/Sycamore Collection