Help identify a AAF patch

[Tom Bowers]

My dad served at Selman Field near Monroe, LA during WWII, basically an office job. He was in his mid-thirties and never went oversees. He was discharged as staff sargeant.
My wife is putting together an extensive scrapbook for the family and we have one patch we can't identify after looking at various sources.
Can anyone help identify the patch in the attached photo or put me in right direction to identify it. TIA

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[jon_norstog]

Tom,

It looks like the "ruptured duck." Everyone remotely connected with the war effort got one. My dad,my uncles, I think even my grandmother got one for her work in the Office of War production.

It was on a 3-cent stamp, I must have seen a million of them.

Any other experiences to share out there?

jn

[VET70]

They were issued to every honorably discharged veteran and worn over the right pocket.

[Bob Womack]

As most guys left the service, all they had to wear was their service uniforms. The idea of the Ruptured Duck insignia was to give the fellows who were mustering out and going back home an indentifying patch so they could legally wear their service duds 'til they could get some new clothes. I think they were good for thirty days from discharge.

Back then, a guy in uniform on a train or off base would be accosted by the MPs or SPs to 'splain what they were doing there. This reduced the hassles for all.

Bob

[SUB VET II]

Ruptured Duck it is. Was also issured as a metal Pin.