Round shaped, brass colored coin, 1 1/4 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • Patrol Squadron 8 (VP-8)
Location
Coin Location: 11C10
Homebase: Brunswick & Jacksonville, Florida
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 6 June 2009
Donated by: AFCM Kevin Holden
Copies: 1 of 1

C001582

Location: 11C10 Height: 1.25

Coin: CSM / SGM / 1Sgt

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Round shaped, brass colored coin, 1 1/4 inches in diameter.

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Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) is a U.S. Navy land-based patrol squadron that was based at the Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine, but is now stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. VP-8 is tasked to undertake maritime patrol, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.

VP-8 served as a land-based anti-submarine patrol squadron in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. VP-8 also became the first operational P-3 Orion squadron in the United States Navy, occurring in October 1962 just prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis.