Vietnam Harbour Clearance Patch

A locally made in-country machine made patch for Harbor Clearance Unit 1. Good colours fully embroidered example.Measures4 1/8' x 4 1/4' tallHarbor Clearance Unit One, a United States Navy unit, was commissioned in February 1966 with the mission '....to provide salvage repair; diving and rescue services in rivers and restricted waters and to conduct harbor and river clearance operations in the Western Pacific.' Some contended that the intended mission was to provide rapidly deployable diving and salvage teams in direct support of the Vietnam War. Whatever the actual intent was, the concept was proven so effective that the command was moved to continuous salvage service at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, near the end of the Vietnam War.