AB45 Posted July 25, 2014 Share #1 Posted July 25, 2014 Hey The three pins has found a friend.Who can help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardheaded Posted July 25, 2014 Share #2 Posted July 25, 2014 MOBILITY STRATEGICAL TACTICAL is the motto of MOTOR TRANSPORT SCHOOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB45 Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted July 25, 2014 Thanks hardheaded But which ones ? Do you have a link ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted July 25, 2014 Share #4 Posted July 25, 2014 That's a map of Ireland on the bottom one..."The Emerald Isle". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB45 Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share #5 Posted July 25, 2014 Hey Sabrejet Very good But which U.S. coat of arms has Ireland in the tag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted July 25, 2014 Share #6 Posted July 25, 2014 Hey Sabrejet Very good But which U.S. coat of arms has Ireland in the tag? There were US units which landed in NORTHERN Ireland en route to the UK in 1942...both Army and Marines. Maybe an historic link there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB45 Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share #7 Posted July 25, 2014 There were US units which landed in NORTHERN Ireland en route to the UK in 1942...both Army and Marines. Maybe an historic link there? I'm not sure, but I think the pin was found in Hurtgenwald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted July 25, 2014 Share #8 Posted July 25, 2014 Can you make out the motto? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunbunnyB/3/75FA Posted July 25, 2014 Share #9 Posted July 25, 2014 perhaps both the middle and bottom are both from northern irish units? but that middle one really looks more like a souviener than a unit dui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patchcollector Posted July 25, 2014 Share #10 Posted July 25, 2014 This website may be helpful in determining when clutchbacks appeared: http://hglanham.tripod.com/metalinsignia/datingdis1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patchcollector Posted July 25, 2014 Share #11 Posted July 25, 2014 As for the center badge,it looks like a sailing ship,and I'm thinking maybe a French Naval piece(?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BROBS Posted July 25, 2014 Share #12 Posted July 25, 2014 Can you make out the motto? I see the word "IRISH" in the top left... I don't believe this is a DI. -Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tredhed2 Posted July 26, 2014 Share #13 Posted July 26, 2014 The piece on the top right reads "Eire" on the left which is one way the Irish refer to Ireland - probably not a US military insignia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB45 Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share #14 Posted July 28, 2014 Hey I got pictures of the back.I hope you can read what. Greeting AB45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB45 Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share #15 Posted July 31, 2014 Found Ca. 1940 French Badge for Destroyer "Bold"/Insigne Pour Torpilleur Le Hardi par Bertrand Code: omfr20004 Price: $215.00 Quantity in Basket: none http://www.flyingtigerantiques.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=fta&Category_Code=12omfrv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 1, 2014 Share #16 Posted August 1, 2014 Found Ca. 1940 French Badge for Destroyer "Bold"/Insigne Pour Torpilleur Le Hardi par BertrandCode: omfr20004 Price: $215.00 Quantity in Basket: none http://www.flyingtigerantiques.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=fta&Category_Code=12omfrv Now that's interesting. SUBJECT: This is a 1940 badge for the French destroyer “Bold” (torpilleur Le Hardi) with a period engraving on reverse. Le Hardi was the first in its class, also named “Hardi”, and was built in May 1936. She departed Brest for North Africa along with the very technologically-advanced battleship Richelieu, heading for the Battle of Dakar (aka Operation Menace), a disaster for the Allies. Le Hardi was intentionally sunk at Toulon in 1942 to keep her out of the hands of Germans, but was resurrected and repaired by Italians the following year. She was soon after captured by Germans and scuttled (for the last time) by them in April 1944. The pin is beautifully enameled and reads ETRE PRET (be ready), but does not disclose the name of the ship lest the wearer is captured. I wonder how a badge for a French Naval Vessel came to be found in Germany as a dug relic, maybe a former crewman of the Bold now serving in the French Army in one of those Fusliler Marins units? either in the 1er Regiment de Fusiliers-Marins de Reconnaissance, 1st Free French Division (1er DFL), or the Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers Marins (RBFM) of the 2nd Armoured Division? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB45 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share #17 Posted August 1, 2014 Thanks Patches I think the answer only know the trees from the Hürtgenwald.Here is a strange finding from the HW.Something for our island friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 1, 2014 Share #18 Posted August 1, 2014 The French Navy Ship Badge was found in the Huertgen Forest? If it was in the possession of a former crewman now in the Fusiler Marins, one would expect the part of Germany where it was found would be in Southern Germany, like the Black Forest Bavaria etc. The next idea in reguards to why a French Navy Ship Badge was found in the HW, would be a souvenier picked up somewhere earlier in France by a GI or a German, and lost/droped by him while his unit was in the HW. Perhaps the same scenario too reguarding the British 1914-15 Campaign Star Medal, That or maybe a British Army unit past though the HW on there way to Cologne in 1919 during the occupation period? It states that the 1914-15 Star was established in December 1918, so maybe some were issued out by the time the British moved in, provided of course if any British units passed though the HW on they way to the Cologne area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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