Luftwaffe patches

[SprogCollector]

Gents:
I'm looking for some guidance/opinions as to what types of unit patches were worn on the leather flight jacket. Specifically, were squadron anniversery-type patches worn? For example, AG-51's 30th year patch? Or the Last Call for the original AG-51?





Personally, I really like this one. AG-51 Immelmann was decommissioned as an F-4 Squadron and then recommissioned as a Tornado squadron. The original AG-51 Owl was replaced by the former AG-52 Panther (AG-52 was also decommissioned). I can only imagine that the 'new' AG-51 Panthers were formed from former AG-52 members not wishing to lose their squadron patch?


The new/current AG-51 Immelmann flies Tornado's


Last Call for Phabulous Phantoms of AG-51 and AG-52, circa 1990s

[SprogCollector]

A bit of further reading and it appears the Tornado aircraft equipping the 'new' AG-51 were actually Marine Tornados of the decommissioned MFG-5.

[RamJet]

When MFG 1 (not MFG 5, the helicopter wing still exists), AG 51 and AG 52 were decomissioned in the beginning of the 90s, at former MFG 1 home base Jagel the AG 51 (new) was formed, taking over some MFG 1 Tornados but not all, the rest went to MFG 2. The wing's inventory was filled up with Tornados from the Luftwaffe. Actually, the Navy transferred the best birds to MFG 2 and handed over only the older ones ...

Personnel came mainly from AG 52 but also from MFG 1 (they changed the uniform) and JaboG 41, which was also decommissioned at that time. The flight crew living in Northern Germany got a chance to stay with the new wing, and the pilots and WSOs of AG 51 (old) mainly tried to be transferred to other wings in the Souh.