Johan,
I think you are right some were just made pink. Remember also that for early wings there is no sealed pattern for those, it was all very unofficial. Except that it is said that the two shades of blue in the wing refer to Oxford and Cambridge. Jock Lewis and another early Sas officer forgot his name rowed for each respectively.
Talking about fading when looking at early SAS cloth beret badges the feathers
often turn from blue into green.
Great thread with wonderful wings.
Cheers
JB
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Originally Posted by johanwiegman
Friends,
I have some early wings also with white outline around the outer wings.
No trace of pink on these early wings either. See picture. Notice the crude way
of fixing it to a shirt, probably with a safety pin through the wire loops.
The more I think about it, the more it becomes clear to me the pink wings are not just a case of fading. I believe they were made like that. The question remains where they come from.
Cheers,
Johan
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