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A poorly colorized portrait of late 40s Armored GI who is wearing the Armored Triangle on the cap, the wrong side of the cap we see.

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A silly question, but is an authorized and approved DUI that is in the form of the unit SSI (for example, 82d ABN DIV, HQ AAC, 3d INF DIV, Hawaiian DIV, 1st thru 3d ARM DIV, 76th DIV) considered a PTC? This is in contrast to all those SSI souvenir pins worn as DUIs by soldiers.

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18 hours ago, atb said:

A silly question, but is an authorized and approved DUI that is in the form of the unit SSI (for example, 82d ABN DIV, HQ AAC, 3d INF DIV, Hawaiian DIV, 1st thru 3d ARM DIV, 76th DIV) considered a PTC? This is in contrast to all those SSI souvenir pins worn as DUIs by soldiers.

I would say yes, in that it is a crest of the unit shoulder patch., but then the Patch Type Crest term is a collector term is it not.

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1/6/1946. Frank Sinatra gives his autograph to members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team who were guests of the Hollywood USO after they attended the Sinatra broadcast. One soldier can be seen wearing a 34th Infantry Division combat patch and another is wearing the PTC of the 34th ID on his overseas cap.

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Office Of Startegic Services. I'm not sure if this patch was worn during World War II, but here we see Mr. Paul R. Sweet, Psychological Warfare Section, at work at the typewriter in his room in Belgium. December 1944.

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Another member of the OSS. Left to right Mr. Gordon H. Cole, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations; Col. C. R. Powell, 12th Army Group; Mr. Frank Kaufman, Head of Psychological Warfare Division of SHAEF Leaflet Section, discuss the latest Publicity and Psychological Warfare (PPW) leaflet at Radio Luxembourg. December 1944.

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More OSS. Rudy G. Abrahams (or Abrahms) and Norman J. Rakamp planning and discussing printing problems regarding the leaflets to be fired over enemy lines. December 1944.

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41 minutes ago, seanmc1114 said:

More OSS. Rudy G. Abrahams (or Abrahms) and Norman J. Rakamp planning and discussing printing problems regarding the leaflets to be fired over enemy lines. December 1944.

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Are the OSS insignia DUI-type usage or more in usage like a Branch of Service Insignia? They are wearing it with "U.S." devices on thier other collars like officer's BOS devices.

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2 hours ago, atb said:

Are the OSS insignia DUI-type usage or more in usage like a Branch of Service Insignia? They are wearing it with "U.S." devices on thier other collars like officer's BOS devices.

No idea how you would actually classify the insignia. But from the descriptions accompanying these photos, these men seem to be identified as civillians and not military officers.

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A  Ernest Goldschmit of the Luxembourg Platoon wears a 3rd Division PTC on his GI Fatigue Shirt, along with GI 1948 Reg Sergeant Stripes.

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Here is another uniform grouping with Musicians DUI's. It maybe the same offered lot that I posted pictures from FB Marketplace back in FEB, post #399.  

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2 hours ago, easterneagle87 said:

Here is another uniform grouping with Musicians DUI's. It maybe the same offered lot that I posted pictures from FB Marketplace back in FEB, post #399.  

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Those are the approved DUIs for the Army Field Band. Other Army bands do not wear them.

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Sergeant and Mrs. Curtis Knight and their daughter attend the ceremony where his brother, Lieutenant Jack L. Knight, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. June 1945. Sergeant Knight is wearing the China-Burma-India Theater SSI and patch type crest on his cap. Also note the unusual pockets on his shirt.

 

Lieutenant Knight was born in Garner, Texas and joined the Texas National Guard on 18 November 1940 along with his brother Curtis. Jack graduated from Cavalry OCS at Fort Riley, Kansas. He served as Commander of F Troop (His brother Curtis was the First Sergeant) in the 124th Cavalry Regiment, Mars Task Force.

 

On 2 February 1945 near Loi Kang, Burma, Knight single-handedly destroyed two Japanese pillboxes. Despite being wounded, he led his rifle platoon in an attack on other enemy positions but was again wounded, this time fatally. For his heroic actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously four months later, on 25 June 1945. His regimental commander, Colonel William F. Osborne, veteran of Bataan and Merrill's Marauders, said of Jack Knight, "In more than four years of combat, I have seen many officers fight and die, but LT Knight's action in leading his troop to its objective against strong enemy concentrations is to me the finest example of courage, valor, and leadership of any officer I have ever commanded.

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Mrs. H. L. Little and her son, Sergeant Beekie Ezell, of the 27th Infantry Division, who recently returned from three years duty in the Pacific. April 1945.

 

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U. S. Army Europe SSI worn with the patch type crest. This soldier served 1969 to 1971 with the 24th General Dispensary, 97th General Hospital. The DUI approved for U. S. Army Europe on 27 July 1970 is shown.

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easterneagle87

Currently up for sale on ebay, ORIGINAL VIETNAM Ist FIELD FORCE CLASS ‘B’ UNIFORM LOT & POCKET HANGER

 

DUI's and pocket hanger

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The ever popular ATC PTC in WWII again,we guess sometime in 1944 in the ZI. Here worn by two men of the the Command's Band, the Cpl on the right mnot wearing them on the lower lapels like his fellow bandmate, also a Cpl.

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Cloth Mini 45th Infantry Division PTCs on the Shoulder Loops of late 50s into 60s worn shirt of the 1956 type, the type that was introduced with the Khaki Shorts.

 

(This Up and over at Bay State Militaria and posted here with Chris' kind consent)

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