patches Posted February 27, 2023 Author #401 Posted February 27, 2023 3rd Infantry Div PTC on a KATUSA in December 1952 with Billy Graham.
patches Posted March 20, 2023 Author #402 Posted March 20, 2023 The AAC Roundel again, a Officer and an Enlistedman standing together modeling FLAK Helmets in December 1943.
patches Posted March 31, 2023 Author #403 Posted March 31, 2023 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.
patches Posted April 20, 2023 Author #404 Posted April 20, 2023 And another ATC PTC on a WAC again,, January 1946,.
atb Posted April 20, 2023 #405 Posted April 20, 2023 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.
patches Posted April 21, 2023 Author #406 Posted April 21, 2023 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.
seanmc1114 Posted June 30, 2023 #407 Posted June 30, 2023 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.
seanmc1114 Posted June 30, 2023 #408 Posted June 30, 2023 Members of the 2nd Infantry Division interviewing Art Linkletter in Korea
seanmc1114 Posted July 26, 2023 #409 Posted July 26, 2023 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.
seanmc1114 Posted July 26, 2023 #410 Posted July 26, 2023 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.
seanmc1114 Posted July 26, 2023 #411 Posted July 26, 2023 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.
atb Posted July 26, 2023 #412 Posted July 26, 2023 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. 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.
seanmc1114 Posted July 26, 2023 #413 Posted July 26, 2023 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.
patches Posted July 29, 2023 Author #414 Posted July 29, 2023 A Ernest Goldschmit of the Luxembourg Platoon wears a 3rd Division PTC on his GI Fatigue Shirt, along with GI 1948 Reg Sergeant Stripes.
easterneagle87 Posted July 30, 2023 #415 Posted July 30, 2023 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.
atb Posted July 30, 2023 #416 Posted July 30, 2023 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. Those are the approved DUIs for the Army Field Band. Other Army bands do not wear them.
seanmc1114 Posted August 9, 2023 #418 Posted August 9, 2023 A recruiting sergeant is seen wearing the Fourth Army PTC -sideways - on his overseas cap in this 1947 photo.
seanmc1114 Posted August 10, 2023 #419 Posted August 10, 2023 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.
seanmc1114 Posted August 10, 2023 #420 Posted August 10, 2023 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.
seanmc1114 Posted August 28, 2023 #421 Posted August 28, 2023 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.
easterneagle87 Posted October 1, 2023 #422 Posted October 1, 2023 Currently up for sale on ebay, ORIGINAL VIETNAM Ist FIELD FORCE CLASS ‘B’ UNIFORM LOT & POCKET HANGER DUI's and pocket hanger
easterneagle87 Posted October 17, 2023 #423 Posted October 17, 2023 HIGHLY decorated 1st CAV Korean War soldier.
patches Posted November 9, 2023 Author #424 Posted November 9, 2023 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.
patches Posted December 15, 2023 Author #425 Posted December 15, 2023 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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