Patch of the U.S. Navy Airship Airborne Early Warning Squadron 1 (ZW-1). The squadron was commissioned at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey (USA) on 3 January 1956. ZW-1 was redesignated Airship Patrol Squadron 1 (ZP-1) on 3 February 1961 and was decommissioned on 31 October 1961.
USN
1956
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://navalaviationnews.navylive.dodlive.mil/">U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News</a>/<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/newbackissues.htm">[1]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/1980s/1981/Nov81.pdf">November 1981</a>, p. 56. Coloured version found here: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/lg/P2095_lg.jpg">[2]</a>