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by kriegsmodell Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:09 pm
airborne1968 wrote:Found these on my trip in Florida. Only the SF skull patch has a Velcro backing. BTW what are these called when referring to them? Tom
Nice stuff Tomas.
Some call these "Shell Bursts" using the same terminology as the Vietnam era patches from which these are based (IMO away). The translation at the top is Special Forces. Then again, you may have been asking about the name tape.
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