firefighter Posted September 2, 2013 Share #26 Posted September 2, 2013 It's the December 1919 issue.It shows about a half dozen and gives details but no history about the living patch.I wonder how far back these go? The 11th Inf Div patch it states the photographer was 75feet above the men and the used 2 field phones to move the men into position and took about 3 hours to get them all into position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot329 Posted September 2, 2013 Share #27 Posted September 2, 2013 Wonderful pictures, thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Dogs Posted September 2, 2013 Share #28 Posted September 2, 2013 There is a large book that was put out sometime around 1920 that had many living patches. I can not remember the name of the book. It has been over 25 years and I have not seen an other one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 7, 2013 Share #29 Posted September 7, 2013 The Living Patch concept alive and well in WWII, or at least in the earlier part of the War. Seen here is the 91st Powder River Division patch made up by an unknown elements, whole Division? nah right? who knows. We do see to the left of the patch Halftracks while on the right ambulances, perhaps the units are made up from the Division's Reconnaissace Troop Mecz and Medical Company, among maybe a couple or a few more of other Divisional elements. Camp White Oregon, I gather shortly after the Division was reactivated in August 1942. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 7, 2016 Share #30 Posted August 7, 2016 Happy to have found another addition for this topic. A more current 3rd Division living patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
468abnarm Posted August 9, 2016 Share #31 Posted August 9, 2016 Very nice, Thanks for posting Happy to have found another addition for this topic. A more current 3rd Division living patch. A.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 25, 2016 Share #32 Posted September 25, 2016 This was found by accident a few days ago, not so much a shoulder patch obviously, but rather a symbol of the type of service the troops are involved in, The Calvary. WWI Remount unit, Remount Depot no 326 at Camp Cody New Mexico. Cp Cody incidentally was where the original 34th Division formed their living patch for posterity back in the late Summer Autumn or so of 1917. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Cody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 13, 2016 Share #33 Posted October 13, 2016 Ah lets add these two here, the Blue Spaders of the 1st Battalion 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Kosovo 1999, Iraq, date unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 5, 2017 Share #34 Posted February 5, 2017 The Pineapple Division in 1932. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 9, 2018 Share #35 Posted May 9, 2018 The 3rd Division yet again, the caption tells us about it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 25, 2018 Share #36 Posted November 25, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 25, 2018 Share #37 Posted November 25, 2018 CAMP CASEY, South Korea — The 2nd Infantry Division formed and photographed a living insignia featuring its storied Indianhead patch Wednesday in the run-up to its 2017 centennial celebrations. It was the third time since 1925 that the division assembled thousands of soldiers for the unusual photo shoot. The second time was in 2009. More than 5,000 soldiers wearing dress uniforms, white shirts or red T-shirts gathered on the field to re-create the insignia — an Indianhead superimposed over a white star with a black shield background. Photographers were positioned 40 feet above in two rented cherry pickers. Some 600 South Koreans were included, reflecting that the 2nd ID is the Army’s only permanently forward-deployed combined division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 25, 2018 Share #38 Posted November 25, 2018 Approximately 700 Soldiers from 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division re-create the 1ID insignia at Indianhead Field on Camp Casey, South Korea, Dec. 21, 2016. 1/1 is a rotational unit attached to 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea for nine months and will be celebrating the unit's 100 year anniversary in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 25, 2018 Share #39 Posted November 25, 2018 I think they should of had the men wear Red Ski Masks in that Big Red One patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 27, 2018 Share #40 Posted December 27, 2018 Got one more Indianhead Division, this one scanned from a unit 1964 yearbook I got when they were stationed at Ft Benning Georgia. In this 1925 one, the division was at Ft Sam Houston Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted January 14, 2019 Share #41 Posted January 14, 2019 Saw this at the Knoxville VA clinic. 77th Div Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 14, 2019 Share #42 Posted January 14, 2019 Saw this at the Knoxville VA clinic. 77th Div Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk These are good close ups of this, the one posted on page 1 of this topic post #5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 11, 2020 Share #43 Posted August 11, 2020 Found a few in the same vein, not patches, nevertheless still deserving of a posting here. Great Lakes 1917 and recreated again in 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 11, 2020 Share #44 Posted August 11, 2020 Soldiers at Fort Riley Kansas The Son in Service Banner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 11, 2020 Share #45 Posted August 11, 2020 The American Shield done up by Solders at Camp Custer 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 11, 2020 Share #46 Posted August 11, 2020 And finally Sailors again, here I think at San Diego??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 12, 2020 Share #47 Posted December 12, 2020 T for TEXAS, the Texas Division, Post WW 1926, the reformed 36th Division now back to state command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 12, 2020 Share #48 Posted December 12, 2020 And this gem, in fact post WWII at Lackland in July 1947, at this date the branch is still part of the Army, it will be a month later that it becomes the separate branch the United States Air Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 12, 2020 Share #49 Posted December 12, 2020 And finally, the Air Corps Kelly Field TX, again post WW, 1926. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 6, 2021 Share #50 Posted February 6, 2021 The 11th Lafayette Division Camp Meade Maryland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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