During World War I the pilots that engaged in dogfights over the Western Front came to be called the Knights of the Air. Thus, it is fitting that throughout aviation history squadrons have adopted insignias as veritable coats of arms, capturing the esprit of airmen that wage war in the air to this day. Colorfully adorned with unit insignias, this exhibit displays hundreds of squadron, ship, and station patches collected by the museum through the years. One place that these patches often ended up was on the leather flight jackets and other flight gear issued to naval aviation personnel, which form the other element of this popular exhibit. Flight jackets ranging from a seal skin coat worn by Richard Byrd during one of his Antarctic expeditions to one that belonged to a member of Major “Pappy” Boyington’s Black Sheep squadron document the history of flight clothing unique to aviation.