2″ hat pin is shaped like the 18th Special Operation Squadron patch and is a copy of the Stinger hat pin. It is a little thicker metal. Very nice pin to show your Stinger Pride on a jacket, vest or hat.
Hat pin is a silhouette of an AC-119G Shadow airplane in flight. It would look good on a hat, vest, party suit or on the lapel of a jacket. Add this item to your pin collection.
18” x 26” high-quality lithograph depicting AC-119K Stinger on night SEA combat mission, unloading havoc with the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos – nicknamed “The Blood Road” – as antiaircraft artillery (AAA) guns try to down it. (Both our Shadow and Stinger were also called Dragon Ships by the enemy.) Signed, numbered, & frameable lithograph of original painting — completed in 2004 by Artist Darby Perrin — which hangs in the National Museum at Dayton Ohio (donated by the AC-119 Gunship Association in 2005.)
2” silver hat pin is shaped like the AC-119 Gunship Association patch and has black “AC-119 Gunship” lettering on the top and “Association” lettering on the bottom. The center has the squadron logos (71st,17th and 18th) an AC-119 gunship firing, and a moon and stars.