Preservation of Rare US Military Insignia

Chester Burger, an air force staff sergeant, amassed perhaps the most complete collection of U.S. military should patch insignia during the Second World War. Watch as he meets conservators from The New York Public Library who recently cleaned and preserved his collection, then showed it to him for the first time in several decades. Please note the correct 23 seconds into the video: Mr. Burger was stationed several places during WWII, not just Los Angeles.

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Education

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• Second
• World
• War
• II
• US
• military
• army
• air
• force
• patches
• insignia
• New
• York
• Public
• Library
• NYPL

[100trueneutral]

Were they trying to preserve the actual patches or the pages that they were mounted on? It wasn't clear. Most of the patches here seemed to be in perfect condition.

[Shadowsta13]

It's always great to see history preserved like this. i personally only have a very small collection 5 sergeant patches, 2/3 of an airforce patch (had been eaten away by bugs) and a one of a kind Philippine resistance money and a Japanese occupation dollar.

[nypd67p]

Thats sick

[jjlwis]

great video!

very cute Lab Techs!!

[skowheganme]

I have collected US Military insignia including decorations and medals for 52 years; currently I have 40,000 items including every patch seen here and yes even the YANK Correspondence patch. The rarest patch, perhaps, is the Philippine Scouts; I paid 2650 dollars for mine over five years ago and have never regretted the purchase! Someday I will travel to NYC again, this time to see this wonderful collection and the preservation of each page of those scrapbooks - Good job !

[strattoncaster508]

I am a patch collecter too, i have about 100 of them. Extrordinary Video!

[ichewtoast111]

good for him!

[FREISandFAGAN]

I just put restoration into the search field here on YouTube and this showed up. Very heart warming story and great work by the NYPL team and kudos to Chester Burger for collecting all those great patches.

[Czaendermajer]

althought i preffer the german third reich insignias over every other.....But

this is excelently awesome i give 5/5

yeah ;)

[slayerrat]

excellent video.