I was with HMM-263 in Tustin at MCAF Santa Ana, from Dec 67, when we got our first Phrog, until Aug 68. That whole time we had the Gopher Patch - "Gopher Broke"

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From: gabby263

Gents,
Given my two tours in HMM-263 - '80 to '83 and '94 to '98 - the 'order' of the patches, #3 thru #6, looks good to me.

S/F, Gabby

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From: Les Williams

Looks right to me.
J.D and I are way to young to even know about that first one! Perhaps the old timers will know about that one? Hehe

S/F Eas

HMM/VMM-263 Patches

I was in HMM-263 from Nov '66 to Nov '67 [ H-34's ] when the colors came back stateside to reform with H-46's. Our patch was the second row, second from the left so that one should also be between the HMR and the Eager Gophers patches on the first row. Hope this helps. Semper Fi Joe H.

HMM-263 Patches

Peach Bush Med-evac would be from the UH-34 days, I believe. Move it to the left of the "Gopher broke". Was on a commercial flight with a couple of their '34 guys and rember their discussing this at length.

HMM-263 Patches

The Peachbush Medevac patch came after the Gopher Broke patch. It was the patch we had in 1970-1971.

Peach Bush

I remembered it wrong, I guess...Imagine that!

Team, I joined HMM-263 in January '65....here's the patch we had at that time at New River..........so, looks like you're on target Wally........Great job on the display.........
Semper Fi.
/Bill.