Show PATCH COLLECTION First Lieutenant Gary S. Poppleton has sheets of THE platoon United Nations Command Honor UNC is one of approximately serious collectors worldwide of military shoulder and pocket The lieutenant's collection of U.S. Army and Army Air Corps shoulder and pocket patches includes such rare patches as that of the Japan war crimes trial and those of the fictitious World War II U.S. Army corps and POPPLETON is the son of and Gib East and is married to the former Mary daughter of and Edwin T. East Neatly displayed on twenty 30 x 40 white the lieutenant's patches are a history of the U.S. In the neatly arranged and colorful rows can be seen the many units of the Army and the various stages through which insignias have I've spent only on my I value it at said serious collectors do not buy although there are companies that specialize in selling to Army-Navy stories also often sell said the Utah State University collected most of my patches by trading with other collectors and writing to units and requesting their As one of the members of the American Society of Military Insignia I receive the society's quarterly Trading in which I and other members can advertise patches we want to trade or said IT WAS during World War I 1st Gary S. Poppleton inspects part of his collection of oyer 1800 U. S. Army shoulder and pocket that the military began to use shoulder After the Korean The Air Force and Marine Corps stopped using shoulder Since the Navy never wore shoulder the Army the only branch still using IT IS very difficult to obtain pro-World War II according to As a result this collection consists predominantly of World War II and post World War II The Logan native started patch collecting at the age of ten when an Air Force sergeant gave him a box of Since that meager beginning the lieutenant has kept a wary eye for any chance to add to his now enviable AS A YOUTH he even added to his collection from patches enclosed m cornflake The patch who has also collected military medals and once traded a Congressional Medal of Honor for plus several valuable picked up a few patches while serving over two years as a missionary for the Church in It was from a old in an antique shop in Calif that Poppleton obtained his most prized the Japan war crimes trial POPPLETON admits that Utah is not a military patch collector's He explained simply doesn't have the military installations that the eastern U.S. There probably weren't a half dozen serious military patch collectors in Utah when I was a kid collectors begin to specialize after they reach a certain stage because of limited storage space and the In addition I've collected military although I've stopped collecting crests because it's too Poppleton tew collectors collect every form of patch available from those of the Boy Scouts to those of foreign military I've heard of one collector who claims to have assorted the lieutenant THE VIETNAM War presented a dilemma for a large number of With the coming of the war came Army-wide use of subdued Now each unit must have a subdued insignia for wear on fatigues as well as their colorful patches for other This doubles the number of patches needed to have a full collection for active Now I must decide if I will collect all the subdued said Poppleton will continue to carefully scrutinize the insignias of his fellow browse through Army-Navy exchange trading lists with other talk with old in and inquire about patches that lie forgotten in in search of those patches that will one day make his collection |