Patches In Action, Part 2: Images Of SSI Used Other Than On Uniforms

[Major Z]

Those may be pads for VIP birds. That practice still exists. As an example, the A Co of 2-1 GSAB (now stationed at Fort Riley) provides that service today.

[doinworkinvans]

insiginia of the 2nd Air Commando's on the C47

[firefighter]

insiginia of the 2nd Air Commando's on the C47

 

 

Cool tail marking. Isn't there a patch with the exclamation point on it?

[Robswashashore]

Marker in a churchyard in Malempre, Belgium

[doinworkinvans]

 

 

Cool tail marking. Isn't there a patch with the exclamation point on it?

Probably one of the sweetest CBI patches I've ever seen

 

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[Military Engineer]

919th Engineer Company, Supported 11th ACR

[Military Engineer]

Medical Det of the 84th Engineer Bn Korea.

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Two from the 70th Inf Div showing their Trailblazer patch.

 

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The 32nd Division, on it's side.

 

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And the Constabulary.

 

 

 

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121st Aviation Company with MACV's patch. Don't know the significance of the ARMOR type patch in the center, and we can't make out the word on the "tab", we do see the RVN colors on the yellow portion on the diagonal though. Perhaps it has something to do with the ARVN 9th Armored Cavalry Regiment???, the ARVN 9th ACR was since 1966 based at Soc Trang, maybe the 121st AVN Co flew support for it from time to time???

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Another Patch on a Cake

 

Found this online, though you can't make it out here it is the Florida NG 48th Armored Division's patch we're seeing on this cake, photo circa late 50s early 60s and shows officers of the command of the division and of the 1st Armored Rifle Battalion 124th Infantry.

 

L to R: Maj. General Maxwell C. Snyder (of Jacksonville), Commanding General 48th Armored Division; Col. Louie C. Wadsworth (of Live Oak), Commander Combat Command A; Lt. Col. Ralph C. Davis (of Tallahassee) Commander 1st Armored Rifle Battalion; Capt. Charles G. Mohr (of Tallahassee) Commander Headquarters Company 1st Armored Rifle Battalion

[doinworkinvans]

23rd FG

[doinworkinvans]

10th Air Force HQ - Kunming China

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Found this online photo from a Gomer Pyle episode, here we see the 5th and 3rd Marine Division patches as a wall plaque. While it's known that the Marine Corps stopped wearing them after WWII, they still retained them to use up to the present day as a matter of fact, they where, and are use in and on all sorts of things, Stationary, Letter Heads, integrated into unit signage, on rare occasion on vehicles/aircraft, you name it.

 

BTW the Cpl is actor William Christopher.

[Salvage Sailor]

Dialing back......

 

Wheeler Field, T.H. 26th Attack Squadron

 

19th Pursuit Squadron - The Surrendering Chicken

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As one might think Divisional Shoulder Patches started to appear on bass Drums, oh I imagine in the early 20s, maybe as early as 1919. So go ahead and post any patches on bass drums you can find as I think there cool and interesting.

 

Here is the 43rd Infantry Div band in Germany circa 1952-53.

 

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Another Patch on a Bass Drum.

 

 

A Scan by me, the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) May 1971 Camp Eagle RVN.

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Found a few patches on Bass Drums tonight.

 

 

The 31st Infantry Division Band at Temple Texas Airport March 1952, they were participating in Exercise Long Horn at Fort Hood, interesting it seems the 31st Div, which was federalized because of Korea, and though it lost a ton of it's people as replacements for Korea, was a full combat division and not a training division as always thought right, because if it was a cadre strength training division training basic trainees, would it be participating in this large field exercise?

 

 

 

Any hoo, in this foto we see the Dixie Division, the band, though we can't make it out here, was apparently outfitted in special Grey uniforms with kepi, the kepis we can make out.

 

 

And the flip side of their Bass Drums.

 

 

 

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The current 42nd Inf Div and 34th Inf Div, the 34th Div band fotoed in Iraq.

 

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The 9th Inf Div Band's well worn Bass Drum.

 

 

This first one was taken on June 24 1969 at Tan Tru, a concert for the 2nd Bn 60th Inf.

 

 

This one here, an awards parade at Div HQ Dong Tam, July 5 1969, the HQ and the band along with most of the division would soon depart the RVN on August 27th. The division would leave behind it's 3rd Brigade to act separately, which would include the aforementioned 2/60th Inf.

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Some massed bands massed into a temporary U.S. Army Pacific Band, the occasion is the 2012 Japan Self-Defense Forces' annual marching band festival in Tokyo, cool huh! .

 

 

From left to right U.S. Army Japan, 9th Army Band Alaska, 25th Infantry Division Band, and 8th Army Band.

 

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An early one with Divisional Shoulder Patch on Bass Drum, the 313th Infantry Band, 79th Division Fort Meade Maryland 1919, this was way before the adoption of unit crests, after that the units DI would normally be seen on the drums rather that the divisional patch.

 

Photos originally posted by Manchu Warrior back in 2008.

 

 

[439th Signal Battalion]

Camp Frenzell-Jones, Brigade Main Base for the 199th Infantry Brigade, Vietnam 1966 - 1970.