patches Posted November 11, 2014 Share #26 Posted November 11, 2014 Hope this cake counts. Members of the 7th Army chorus (probably) and two NCOs of Artillerielehrregiment during a "Friendship Week" gala. Picture taken in Idar-Oberstein in 1968. Yum yum... BH3.jpg Your damn straight it does A very unique addition, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted November 11, 2014 Share #27 Posted November 11, 2014 Your damn straight it does A very unique addition, thanks. Okay, one more... Sugar made patches, seem to be very popular during those days (bottom of the second pic). Pictures taken in Nahbollenbach Depot 1968. P.S.: I LOVE THOSE CHROMED HELMETS!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share #28 Posted November 15, 2014 Sign for the Americal Division Replacement Detachment in Vietnam showing the patches of the Americal as well as the 11th, 196th and 198th Light Infantry Brigades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 17, 2014 Share #29 Posted November 17, 2014 Buck Privates Come Home Well not exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 22, 2014 Share #30 Posted December 22, 2014 A self explanatory road sign erected by the 6th Armd Div. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notinfringed Posted December 27, 2014 Share #31 Posted December 27, 2014 Backdrop for a USO show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notinfringed Posted December 27, 2014 Share #32 Posted December 27, 2014 Attu Island, late or just post war. I don't know if you can read it, but the movie showing is Ernie Pyle's "story of GI Joe": Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted December 28, 2014 Share #33 Posted December 28, 2014 Flying Butterknife, Vietnam 1969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 5, 2015 Share #34 Posted January 5, 2015 16th Corps Japan circa 1952-53. (Don't know what the XXX symbolizes on the sign BTW) XVI Corps was activated as we remember, and sent to Japan as a Tactical Command, it controlled intially the 40th and 45th Infantry Divisions, and then the 1st Cavalry Division and 24th Infantry Division when the former replaced the latter in Combat over in Korea. I also now gather the 187th RCT when it was pulled out of Korean was under XVI Corps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted January 15, 2015 Share #35 Posted January 15, 2015 Well, it's on an uniform...um...kind of...but where else to post? Scan of a newspaper article dealing with some partnership event in celebration of a 3rd InfDiv's Honest John Rocket Battalion anniversary in 1966. Mentioned is "The Mighty Ninth" (I assume 1st Bn, 9th Field Arty). Depicted are a German and a (very young) U.S. trooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavcon Posted January 15, 2015 Share #36 Posted January 15, 2015 17th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron signs, Germany 1946. Note both styles of the 17th Cav. patch and the 15th Cav. Di Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 15, 2015 Share #37 Posted January 15, 2015 XVI Corps Japan.jpg 16th Corps Japan circa 1952-53. (Don't know what the XXX symbolizes on the sign BTW) XVI Corps was activated as we remember, and sent to Japan as a Tactical Command, it controlled intially the 40th and 45th Infantry Divisions, and then the 1st Cavalry Division and 24th Infantry Division when the former replaced the latter in Combat over in Korea. I also now gather the 187th RCT when it was pulled out of Korean was under XVI Corps. Found out what XXX on the sign means, it's the Tactical Symbol for a Corps. Used in the context of the sign, probably just another way of saying Corps, as in XVI XXX, XXX being sub-ed for the writtten word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 18, 2015 Share #38 Posted January 18, 2015 A exceptionally rare appearance of the 6th Infantry Division shoulder patch for the Vietnam Era as seen on this Fort Campbell KY post card, circa late 1967-mid 1968. Try as one might, one is hard pressed not only to find images of the 6th Infantry Div during this time, but also hard info, whether in books or online. We know from Stanton's Order of Battle Vietnam, which gives it's full Order of Battle, that the old Sight Seeing 6th was reactivated with elements at Fort Campbell Kentucky November 1967 (no doubt occupying the barracks of the 101st Abn Div, now in full over in Vietnam), and at Schofield Barracks Hawaii (no doubt occupying the barracks of the 25th Inf Div, and the later Schofield based 11th Inf Bde (sep), both now in Vietnam. What little info we can find online is that the 11th Inf Bde (sep) confusingly was going to be a Brigade of the 6th Inf Div, since both the Brigade Shoulder Patch and the Brigade Distinctive Unit Insignia for Non Color Bearing Units were approved in July 1966, this has to be some time in the summer of 1966, not really sure how accurate that info is, we have always been under the assumption the 11th Inf Bde (sep) was activated as a separate brigade in the summer of 1966 to simply provide some kind of a Army combat presence in the islands after the departure of the 25th Inf Div to Vietnam. 11th Inf Bde (sep) goes to Vietnam, around mid December 1967, around the same time a Brigade of the 6th Inf Div arrives, no brigade number is ever seen, like was it the 6th Div's 1st Bde, or it's 2nd or 3rd? can't seem to find that out. Then there's this from the Wiki on the 6th Inf Div. I quote: In the American build-up during the Vietnam War the division was activated in 1967 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and later a forward brigade was located in Hawaii. There was sentiment against sending the division to Vietnam because its shoulder sleeve insignia invited a derisive nickname ("Commie Jew Division") that General Westmoreland, cognizant of troop morale problems, considered too offensive, and the decision was made instead to form the Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division), with less offensive insignia, in Vietnam itself. During June 1968 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff also declared the 6th Infantry Division unsuitable for combatant deployment because it flunked its readiness report, and shortly thereafter the division was terminated on 25 July 1968. Again, not sure how accurate that is either, Commie Jew Division? Westmoreland didn't want the 6th Div over in Nam because of it? The Americal reactivated instead? As to the Americal, we've always understood it was reactivated specifically in I Corps to replace the Ad Hoc Divisional sized unit Task Force Oregon, and was picked because of it's WWII wartime connections with the Marine Corps in the Solomon Islands, at Guadalcanal and Bouganville, where in I Corps, it's 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions operated, not because of Westy's fear of a 'derisive nickname". Can anyone add more? If so please do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavcon Posted January 18, 2015 Share #39 Posted January 18, 2015 14th Constabulary Squadron - The eyes and ears of the 1st Infantry Division, Germany, 1948 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 10, 2015 Share #40 Posted February 10, 2015 A sign for the Phu Lam Signal Battalion (Provisional) circa 1969, seen is the painted color shoulder sleeve insignia for the 1st Signal Brigade, and the Communications Command, in between which is a subdued insignia that's hard to see, thus unknown, I gather it's this units In Country adopted pocket patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doinworkinvans Posted February 10, 2015 Share #41 Posted February 10, 2015 I will add just a couple random ones.... First is the ATC insignia, 2nd is 8th command in England, 3rd is 449th Air Service Grp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 10, 2015 Share #42 Posted February 10, 2015 I will add just a couple random ones.... First is the ATC insignia, 2nd is 8th command in England, 3rd is 449th Air Service Grp What is that second one from? looks like it's from the opening credits of a film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doinworkinvans Posted February 10, 2015 Share #43 Posted February 10, 2015 8th army air force Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 10, 2015 Share #44 Posted February 10, 2015 8th army air force Yeah I know that I was wondering where the image is from/off, it looks like something one sees at a opening of a old film just before titles appear. Like this example here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doinworkinvans Posted February 10, 2015 Share #45 Posted February 10, 2015 oh right, right....duhhh its the wall at 8th HQ in England '44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 11, 2015 Share #46 Posted February 11, 2015 oh right, right....duhhh its the wall at 8th HQ in England '44 Thanks D. A mural then, wow it looks very Art Deco, very 20s 30s, like some I've seen on the walls of Rockefeller Center or in the Chrysler Building here in Manhattan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share #47 Posted February 11, 2015 Here's one from Vietnam with the DUI of the 16th Infantry and the SSI of the 1st Infantry Division and 2nd Infantry Brigade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share #48 Posted April 9, 2015 20th Engineer Brigade SSI painted on a Huey at Bien Hoa Airbase - April 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share #49 Posted April 9, 2015 Aerial view of the airstrip at the 1st Cavalry Division's base camp at Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam - February 1969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 9, 2015 Share #50 Posted April 9, 2015 Aerial view of the airstrip at the 1st Cavalry Division's base camp at Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam - February 1969 What do those tiny Yellow Cav like shields say, looks like VIP followed by a number underneath??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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