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Forum:	Patches & Pins
Topic:	Jose Jimenez's (Bill Dana) Apollo 7 patch

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="arial, helvetica">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">MOL</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">During the Apollo 7 mission, on October 13, 1968, Bill Dana appeared on the Ed Sullivan show as the character "Jose Jimenez" wearing an astronaut suit with the Apollo 7 patch. <P>I believe the patch version he is wearing is the crew flown "souvenir" version. Does anyone else have an opinion?<P><center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kPnaaHR9pLc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

MOL

Well lo and behold this very patch is now up for auction in the next Heritage sale (Nov. 12-13, 2021) along with many other items from Bill Dana's estate:

A 4" x 3" embroidered crew patch that was given to Bill Dana and worn on an appearance of Ed Sullivan. Due to a scheduling conflict, Apollo 7 was the only launch from Mercury through Apollo that Dana was unable to attend. As a token of friendship, the crew sent him a crew patch that he could adhere to his Jose Jimenez flight suit for his Sullivan appearance. It has been handsomely paired with a 5" x 7" (sight size) B&W photo of him and Sullivan and framed to an overall 14.75" x 16.75".

Joel Katzowitz

In 2008, I won an auction lot for a Mercury-Atlas-8 flown one dollar bill. The bill was flown by Wally Schirra for Bill Dana and was gifted to his good friend after the landing.

When I received the bill it was framed and inscribed as being flown on Wally's Sigma 7 flight on "October 5, 1962." Of course I realized that the flight actually occurred on October 3. I reached out to Bill to ask him about the discrepancy and he said his birthday was October 5, so as a joke, he inscribed that date as opposed to the actual mission date.

It's a wonderful artifact.

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