Parachute wings and badges to ID

[ianh67military]

Please see attached photo of world wide parachute badges to ID;
Line 1. Badge 2 may be Australia or NZ
Line 2. No.1 may be Middle East? No.2 US?
Line 3. Bullion? No.2 has DFU on bottom?
Line 4. No.1 SA, but what's SAVIAC? No.2 has OPERATII SPECIALE? No.3 is Irish pachute badge .

Apologies for use of abbreviations. SA is South Africa, US United States, NZ New Zealand. Grateful for explanation of badge abbreviations DFU and SAVIAC.
Badges may be for sale if not relevant to my collections.
Thanks,

Ian H

[Colin S]

Top line: non-standard version of Israeli para wings and non standard Belgian para wings

Second line: Eygptian and US Navy

Third line: Sri Lanka and Danish Flying Union (civilian) wings

Fourth line: non standard South African (SAVIAC makes parachutes for the South African National Defence Forces), Romanian Special Forces, Irish Defence Forces

[leigh kitchen]

Does the red backing to the Israeli wings still signify a combat jump or will this representation of the badge not have that meaning?

[Colin S]

A red backing to the normal metal Isreali wings does still signify a combat jump, but these wings don’t look like the issue ones. The Isrealis don’t normally have cloth wings and these look like a sports or fashion patch rather than something worn on uniform.

[leigh kitchen]

Thanks, they remind me of the sort of insignia that may be on a crew or display teams flight or jump suits.
As an aside, many years ago I had a Tel Aviv bought haversack, olive green with an embossed, red flock Israeli para badge about 10" across on the flap.
When the bag wore out I binned it - I regret not keeping the "wings" at least, an impressive insignia even if, unlabelled, it would have puzzled collectors.

[ianh67military]

Wow. You sir are an expert. I spent hours staring at hundreds of parachute wings on my computer and was unable to pin these ones down. That's a really impressive identification.

Ian H

[Colin S]

Originally Posted by ianh67military

Wow. You sir are an expert. I spent hours staring at hundreds of parachute wings on my computer and was unable to pin these ones down. That's a really impressive identification.

Ian H

It’s my specialist area of interest and, as the Editor for Chute and Dagger UK, I’ve been lucky enough to see most of the wings currently available, but there are always new ones and obscure ones to chase, which I think is the joy of collecting....