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WWII Shoulder Sleeve Insignia Protocol for Shirt


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I know that in WWII, a division insignia was worn on the left shoulder sleeve of a shirt, when the shirt was worn as an outer garment. Besides enlisted men, did this also apply to field officers, such as colonels?

 

I assumed that this applied to anyone of any rank when when the shirt was the outer garment, but I've noticed a lot of WWII officer shirts for sale that do not have any signs of shoulder patches ever being there, so I was just curious.

 

Any tips would be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

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Shoulder Patches were authorized on practically every item, Officers and EMs, one that they weren't allowed off the top of my head was the Raincoat. One big Reason why a shoulder patch won't be seen on an item, is simply there was never one there for whatever reason, a lot of times too if one has a bonafide combat worn item, say like an M43 Field Jacket, was again, never one there, shoulder patches worn in actual combat, while seen in large numbers in lots of division, might not be worn for the various reasons.

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