I've been after one of these for a while now and was finally lucky enough to get one. Embarrassingly, I didn't know exactly what the "F.G.S" stood for. Fighter Gunnery School, perhaps? That wouldn't make sense, only fighter pilots would need that and this clearly has an enlisted air gunners wing on it (very different from a pilot). After some snooping around I found it. Flexible. Of course. Basically meaning that the gunner can move the gun around himself, as opposed to a gun that is mounted to the aircraft in a fixed direction (like on a fighter plane). The Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School at Fort Myers Florida was started in 1942 and closed down at the end of the war. All I need to find now is a photograph showing this patch actually being worn. I think it was most likely a cuff patch, since that was the standard location for flight instructor patches at that time. Anyone out there know?
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