36-tex Posted November 12, 2014 Author Share #26 Posted November 12, 2014 Another plastic artillery piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
36-tex Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share #27 Posted November 26, 2014 Ordnance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
36-tex Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share #28 Posted November 26, 2014 Military Police Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Z Posted November 7, 2016 Share #29 Posted November 7, 2016 Here is a Quartermaster disc that I had never seen until I found it on eBay. This to me is a really great catch! Sorry that the phone pic isn't the highest quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SG_1st_Cav Posted November 8, 2016 Share #30 Posted November 8, 2016 SUPER insignia! Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 8, 2016 Share #31 Posted November 8, 2016 I do believe these are Chemical Corps backings Tex, Cobalt Blue and Gold. As we know, in the 50s when this type with Branch backings are worn with domed or flat discs, the AC since 1947 was no longer a Branch of the Army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmedals Posted May 27, 2018 Share #32 Posted May 27, 2018 I was in a local antique shop today and ran across an Ike jacket with these types of collar discs on it (pictures below). I didn't know what they were since I don't collect that era but luckily found this thread -- thanks to everyone who posted to it. I thought perhaps this would be of interest. I didn't buy the Ike. Is this something I should go back and buy? It wouldn't be a keeper for me but I'd gladly move it on to someone on the Forum who collects this type of militaria. Thanks in advance for any advice, opinions, etc. you may be willing to offer. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmedals Posted May 27, 2018 Share #33 Posted May 27, 2018 Here's a close up of the infantry disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmedals Posted May 27, 2018 Share #34 Posted May 27, 2018 Here's a view of the US disc. I tried to get a shot of the edge. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 27, 2018 Share #35 Posted May 27, 2018 Here's a view of the US disc. I tried to get a shot of the edge. Thanks again. Yeah go back and get it for sure, it's a 5th Regimental Team Combat Korean War vets IKE, that's named,(it's got Serial/Laundry Number), and you can't beat those discs. can't make out the other patch for the moment. Let us know if you do get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmedals Posted May 27, 2018 Share #36 Posted May 27, 2018 Yeah go back and get it for sure, it's a 5th Regimental Team Combat Korean War vets IKE, that's named,(it's got Serial/Laundry Number), and you can't beat those discs. can't make out the other patch for the moment. Let us know if you do get it. Thanks very much for that advice. BTW, the patch on the left sleeve is the 71st Infantry Division. There is also an infantry piped overseas cap with a 5th Infantry Regiment DUI. Picture below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 27, 2018 Share #37 Posted May 27, 2018 Thanks very much for that advice. BTW, the patch on the left sleeve is the 71st Infantry Division. There is also an infantry piped overseas cap with a 5th Infantry Regiment DUI. Picture below. Good stuff, when this IKE was worn, the 5th Infantry was off Regimental Combat Team status, and was a normal regiment then assigned to the reactivated 71st Infantry Division, Fort Lewis Washington. In 1954 the 71st Infantry Division was reactivated in the northwest United States and Alaska as the division headquarters for several geographically separated units, to include the 53rd Infantry Regiment headquartered at Fort Richardson Alaska, with additional units stationed at Fort Greely, and the 4th and5th Infantry Regiments at Fort Lewis. The 723rd Tank Battalion was also withdrawn from the Army Reserve and activated at Camp Irwin California and assigned to the 71st. In this status the division was known as a "static division" not capable of or intended for deployment..The division lasted in this status for less than two years, being inactivated at Fort Lewis on 15 September 1956. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmedals Posted May 27, 2018 Share #38 Posted May 27, 2018 Excellent - thanks. That pretty much closes the circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 21, 2021 Share #39 Posted December 21, 2021 Here's a Artillery Red Plastic Cap Device Backing Disc applied on a Helmet Liner, a 4th Army decaled liner, bet it was worn at Fort Sill OK by a TO&E Artillery unit there in the 50s to mid-sh 60s, as several separate non divisional Artillery Battalions were stationed there and fell undrr 4th Army. When III Corps was reactivated and made a tactical field corps, all these artillery battalions now fell under III Corps, and became III Corps Artillery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 1, 2022 Share #40 Posted March 1, 2022 Here's a pair of pinwheel Engineers. 18K gold plated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 2, 2022 Share #41 Posted March 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Chris said: Here's a pair of pinwheel Engineers. 18K gold plated. Absolutely gorgeous, Are they yours? If so great find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 15, 2022 Share #42 Posted March 15, 2022 Yes, I found them the day I posted. I love these pinwheels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtd_sf_eng Posted March 26, 2022 Share #43 Posted March 26, 2022 While not a collar disc, the hat badge with the blue background is from my enlisted hat badge collection. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 27, 2022 Share #44 Posted March 27, 2022 8 hours ago, rtd_sf_eng said: While not a collar disc, the hat badge with the blue background is from my enlisted hat badge collection. Larry That is nice, Nickel too. Probably from the very late 50s into the 60s wen the new AG 44 Class As come out, and with it the reintroduction of the Service cap, where in this vase Nickel Buttons on the coat were worn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 25, 2023 Share #45 Posted March 25, 2023 Here's a most curious one, Red Artillery Branch Plastic Backing Disc, with a Domed 50s Clutch Back. The curious thing is it is for a K Battery, in the 50s there were no more Batteries in a Field Artillery or Antiaircraft Battalion above C or D. That it is for K Battery implies a Regiment, K Battery being in the Regiment's 3rd Battalion, but Field Artillery Regiments whether Regular Army, National Guard and the Organized Reserves were all broken up in to individual Battalions in early WWII. Your Thoughts Please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 9, 2023 Share #46 Posted July 9, 2023 On 3/25/2023 at 1:25 AM, patches said: Here's a most curious one, Red Artillery Branch Plastic Backing Disc, with a Domed 50s Clutch Back. The curious thing is it is for a K Battery, in the 50s there were no more Batteries in a Field Artillery or Antiaircraft Battalion above C or D. That it is for K Battery implies a Regiment, K Battery being in the Regiment's 3rd Battalion, but Field Artillery Regiments whether Regular Army, National Guard and the Organized Reserves were all broken up in to individual Battalions in early WWII. Your Thoughts Please Hey maybe this one isn't a 50s one but a 30s one???? Because we seen domed ones in WWII. See last post in this topic post #101 https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/185866-history-of-the-collar-disk/page/5/#comment-3009329 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 31 Share #47 Posted March 31 Military Police Green Plastic Backings, on a Khaki Twill Shirt around 1946-1947, A Panama stationed MP unit of the Panama Canal Department, The patch, which is one of those Attached PANAMA Tab ones, is still worn, at this time, that is till the unit is disestablished in November 1947, and it's elmts now fall under the Caribbean, Defense Command, which was redesignated at this time U.S. Army Caribbean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 8 Share #48 Posted April 8 On 11/25/2014 at 9:52 PM, 36-tex said: Military Police Looking at these now, a Screwback Disc, Translucent Disc, I'm guessing this is not an MP Colored Disc from the 1950s but are from the 1930s. As there was no 33rd Military Police Battalion then, perhaps these are for the 33rd Military Police Company 33rd Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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