He was a bubble gunner on the pacific front in WW2. Any idea of the significance or meaning?
It's a bit worn, but that is the patch of VPB-102, a U.S. Navy patrol bomber unit that was in existence from 1943 to 1994. The patch depicts a green dragon hurling a bomb while perching on top of a cloud (VPB-102 was first known as the "Dragons," and then as the "Blue Geese"). During WWII, VPB-102 flew PB4Y-1s (the Navy designation for the stock B-24 Liberator) on missions from Hawaii and islands in the central Pacific. A rather detailed history of the squadron can be found here, from pages 133 to 142. The PDF is very large, so it might take a while to open.
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