seanmc1114 Posted August 22, 2015 Share #1826 Posted August 22, 2015 2nd Infantry Division dog handlers wearing unknown tabs during the Korean War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted August 22, 2015 Share #1827 Posted August 22, 2015 Troops of the 16th Constabulary Squadron wearing Constabulary SSI and tab. The one on the right is wearing Infantry branch insignia and the one on the left appears to be wearing Military Police branch insignia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 28, 2015 Share #1828 Posted August 28, 2015 A 10th Air Force Combat Patch??? Unlikely as this foto was taken in early August of 1944. The officer with the 10th AF patch and the CBI, is Maj Gen Howard C. Davidson CO of the 10th Air Force, the other, Maj Gen Barry M. Giles, Deputy Commander of the Army Air Forces who was in from Washington for a visit or some thing the other one sitting is of course Gen Joe Stilwell. Davidson looks like he's wearing both patches because of some kind of solidarity of being in the CBI??? Also it looks like he wearng only BG stars right? Or are my eyes playing tricks. As a side note Davidson was the CO of 14th Pursuit Wing at Wheeler Field on Pearl Harbor Day, and was actually portrayed in TORA TORA TORA by actor Edward Sheehan, I remember his scene, he's the officer who gives the order to send some fighter aircraft away from Wheeler to disburse them, and brings Lt's Welsh and Taylor in to send them to Haleiwa Field, they think there being sent for for a chewing out for winning or cheating in cards around the base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavcon Posted August 28, 2015 Share #1829 Posted August 28, 2015 Troops of the 16th Constabulary Squadron wearing Constabulary SSI and tab. The one on the right is wearing Infantry branch insignia and the one on the left appears to be wearing Military Police branch insignia. The 2 troopers are both wearing Cavalry crossed sabers, not infantry or MP. The 16th Squadron was very strict with its insignia and all members wore crossed sabers. I am pretty sure they are just manufacturer variants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 6, 2015 Share #1830 Posted September 6, 2015 tscank0006.jpg A 10th Air Force Combat Patch??? Unlikely as this foto was taken in early August of 1944. The officer with the 10th AF patch and the CBI, is Maj Gen Howard C. Davidson CO of the 10th Air Force, the other, Maj Gen Barry M. Giles, Deputy Commander of the Army Air Forces who was in from Washington for a visit or some thing the other one sitting is of course Gen Joe Stilwell. Davidson looks like he's wearing both patches because of some kind of solidarity of being in the CBI??? Also it looks like he wearng only BG stars right? Or are my eyes playing tricks. As a side note Davidson was the CO of 14th Pursuit Wing at Wheeler Field on Pearl Harbor Day, and was actually portrayed in TORA TORA TORA by actor Edward Sheehan, I remember his scene, he's the officer who gives the order to send some fighter aircraft away from Wheeler to disburse them, and brings Lt's Welsh and Taylor in to send them to Haleiwa Field, they think there being sent for for a chewing out for winning or cheating in cards around the base. 81727-19838.jpg Got a couple more AF/CBI combos circa 1944. Both Gen Stratemeyer. Here with a Yugo wing and those USAAF Patch Types Crests, and whats that on the pocket flap, looks like a P-38 Lighting pin? And Old Leatherface's award ceremony for the DFC. See posts # 423 424, see J-Andrews in post # 425 for the straight dope on this uncommom wear of patches by USAAF people in the CBI. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/166035-uncommon-and-obscure-combat-patches-being-worn/page-17&do=findComment&comment=1581965 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted September 6, 2015 Share #1831 Posted September 6, 2015 Hey Matt, didn't we see tora, tora, tora, at oasis movie theater? When it came out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 7, 2015 Share #1832 Posted September 7, 2015 Hey Matt, didn't we see tora, tora, tora, at oasis movie theater? When it came out? Nope It came out in 1970, we seen the movie MIDWAY in 76. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted September 7, 2015 Share #1833 Posted September 7, 2015 I'll take your word for it, could have sworn it was tora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 8, 2015 Share #1834 Posted September 8, 2015 I'll take your word for it, could have sworn it was tora. Nope it was Midway, (actually seen it twice, once with my Father too) and besides we were not hanging around really in 1970 (TORA TORA TORA released in Septmber of that year), more like from 1971-72 on. Also these. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/174521-the-wild-geese-i-dont-see-another-topic-on-this-movie/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrei Posted September 9, 2015 Share #1835 Posted September 9, 2015 173rd Airborne Bde purple hearts. Skytrooper on the right has no name tape on his jacket (the nightmare of many VN collectors) but has a VN airborne jump status badge. Picture stolen from Pinterest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 14, 2015 Share #1836 Posted September 14, 2015 A pair of 44th Infantry Division military policemen interviewing two German child-soldiers taken prisoner at Landeck, Austria on May 6, 1945. Note the odd 44th MP SSI the one on the right is wearing. Anyone seen this variation before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted September 14, 2015 Share #1837 Posted September 14, 2015 Yes I've see that patch before, quite rare. They pop up on eBay every so often. They fetch a few hundred bucks. I've seen a couple of different versions, emb on felt, emb on twill. Great picture. Thanks for showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted September 14, 2015 Share #1838 Posted September 14, 2015 Very cool picks of the 44th M.P.'s. I have never seen a picture of anyone wear the patch. I always thought it was a pocket type patch never a SSI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 15, 2015 Share #1839 Posted September 15, 2015 IFFV patch, Vietnamese made I should think.. A rather self explanatory one due to the caption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share #1840 Posted September 15, 2015 I agree, that is one awesome 44th ID photo!! -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 15, 2015 Share #1841 Posted September 15, 2015 3rd US Engineers, Felt Taro Leaf Patch, Hawaiian Division, Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1920 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 16, 2015 Share #1842 Posted September 16, 2015 A 7th Div Recoilless Rifle team Korea circa 1952. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 16, 2015 Share #1843 Posted September 16, 2015 A Red Bull at Cassino, not sure but I think he's the same one seen in the more published photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 16, 2015 Share #1844 Posted September 16, 2015 Another shot of a soldier of the Trieste U.S. Forces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 16, 2015 Share #1845 Posted September 16, 2015 The 1st Cav Div and 7th Inf Div patches at the link up of 8th Army and X Corps south of Inchon Sept 1950. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 16, 2015 Share #1846 Posted September 16, 2015 11th Field Artillery, newly assigned to the Hawaiian Department after service in France - Twins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 21, 2015 Share #1847 Posted September 21, 2015 Not so much a Patch in action as a Tab in Action. A medic of the 17th Abn Div, Wesel Mar 45, he wears his old M42 Jacket (trousers may be the M42 too, or the Jump modified M43 trousers, hard to tell). The Golden Talon patch either fell away or was purposely removed leaving only the AIRBORNE tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 21, 2015 Share #1848 Posted September 21, 2015 Not so much a Patch in action as a Tab in Action. 144286080649565.jpg A medic of the 17th Abn Div, Wesel Mar 45, he wears his old M42 Jacket (trousers may be the M42 too, or the Jump modified M43 trousers, hard to tell). The Golden Talon patch either fell away or was purposely removed leaving only the AIRBORNE tab. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but it seems like I have seen some discussion in this forum before as to whether any of the 17th Airborne troopers wore their SSI during Operation Varsity and particularly whether there is any photographic evidence of this. Am I crazy or does anyone else remember this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 21, 2015 Share #1849 Posted September 21, 2015 Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but it seems like I have seen some discussion in this forum before as to whether any of the 17th Airborne troopers wore their SSI during Operation Varsity and particularly whether there is any photographic evidence of this. Am I crazy or does anyone else remember this? Yeah I remember that vaguely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 24, 2015 Share #1850 Posted September 24, 2015 40th Armored Division of the California National Guard Recognized the face then the NAME plate, he's Herbert Temple, when I was in 1982 he was Director of the Army National Guard, his portrait, or the head shot of it at any rate is in that 1982 GREEN BOOK I got in the Command and Staff of the Army section. Believe it's this photo that's cropped and printed in the Green Book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_R._Temple,_Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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