Shade Ruff Posted June 1, 2012 Share #101 Posted June 1, 2012 Another 71st ID example. Shade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 1, 2012 Share #102 Posted June 1, 2012 Continued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 1, 2012 Share #103 Posted June 1, 2012 Continued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 1, 2012 Share #104 Posted June 1, 2012 Final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 1, 2012 Share #105 Posted June 1, 2012 Another 89th ID example. Shade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 1, 2012 Share #106 Posted June 1, 2012 Continued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 1, 2012 Share #107 Posted June 1, 2012 Final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wailuna Posted June 10, 2012 Share #108 Posted June 10, 2012 A 2-fer: The sergeant wears the green combat leader stripe on his sleeve and the colonel wears the green combat leader loop on his epaulet. Staff Sergeant Mamoru Masuda, Battery C, 522d Field Artillery Battalion, receiving the Bronze Star Medal from Colonel John M. Hamilton, Commanding Officer of the 30th Field Artillery Group. August 24, 1945, Donauworth, Germany, (note: 522d FA Bn. was relieved from assignment to 442d RCT in March, 1945, and was assigned to Seventh Army until V-E Day and for occupation duty in Germany.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 10, 2012 Share #109 Posted June 10, 2012 A 2-fer: The sergeant wears the green combat leader stripe on his sleeve and the colonel wears the green combat leader loop on his epaulet. Staff Sergeant Mamoru Masuda, Battery C, 522d Field Artillery Battalion, receiving the Bronze Star Medal from Colonel John M. Hamilton, Commanding Officer of the 30th Field Artillery Group. August 24, 1945, Donauworth, Germany, (note: 522d FA Bn. was relieved from assignment to 442d RCT in March, 1945, and was assigned to Seventh Army until V-E Day and for occupation duty in Germany.) Wailuna, Great post for a couple of addiitonal reasons - 1) it provides us with the first dated image of the combat leader stripe in wear and 2) it's a 442nd RCT "green striper." Shade Ruff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted June 11, 2012 Share #110 Posted June 11, 2012 Although somewhat difficult to discern given the folds and image shading, S/Sgt Walter H. Krause of the 502nd PIR, is seen wearing the green combat leader stripe under his S/Sgt rank insignia. Shade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted July 10, 2012 Share #111 Posted July 10, 2012 Another 26th ID example. Shade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wailuna Posted July 30, 2012 Share #113 Posted July 30, 2012 Another Green Stripe on the hoof in Switzerland (source: An R&R memory album entitled: Our Leave in Switzerland ca. 1946). The sergeant is wearing an indistinguishable SSI on his left sleeve and his unit is not otherwise identified. Elsewhere the text mentions that U.S. servicemen came to Switzerland in 1945 and 1946 on leave from their units in Germany and Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wailuna Posted August 9, 2012 Share #114 Posted August 9, 2012 A 78th Infantry Division corporal wearing the green stripe. This crop is from a team picture of players and coaches of the Lightening football squad, somewhere in Germany ca. September 1945 (source: Lightening — The History of the 78th Infantry Division, p. 234, 1947 ed.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted August 9, 2012 Share #115 Posted August 9, 2012 These are some photos from a 104th Association Facebook group I'm a part of. This lady posted some of her father's photos on there. I think the was in the anti-tank company in the 413th Regiment. This wasn't her father but another soldier. I'm not even sure about what date theses photos are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1944 Posted August 9, 2012 Share #116 Posted August 9, 2012 Here is another one out of my Collection i have got that i had forgotton completely about Until today when i saw this Topic again! It's a Grouping Ike Jacket 6th - 3rd A.D. W/Green Leadership Stripe. 3rd - 6th A.D Ike Jacket Leadership-Stripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted August 9, 2012 Share #117 Posted August 9, 2012 I was looking thru some old files and found this. I don't think I ever posted it in this thread but, for sure, I'm not going thru it again just to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wailuna Posted August 10, 2012 Share #118 Posted August 10, 2012 ...These are some photos from a 104th Association Facebook group I'm a part of....I think the was in the anti-tank company in the 413th Regiment...I'm not even sure about what date these photos are… Great pix of the green stripe on that Staff Sergeant. Date WAG: ca. late spring 1945, somewhere in Germany. Can you see details in the platoon photo well enough to tell if any of the squad leaders are wearing green stripes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted August 10, 2012 Share #119 Posted August 10, 2012 Great pix of the green stripe on that Staff Sergeant. Date WAG: ca. late spring 1945, somewhere in Germany. Can you see details in the platoon photo well enough to tell if any of the squad leaders are wearing green stripes? When I looked at the series of photos I only recall the staff sergeant being the only one with them on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattyd82ab Posted December 13, 2012 Share #120 Posted December 13, 2012 Would a SGT squad leader in the 307th AEB have had one on? While they were squad leaders in the batallion, they may not have acted as such when attached to an RCT. I'm just not sure how that worked. Any one have any insight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airborne1968 Posted December 31, 2012 Share #121 Posted December 31, 2012 I was looking thru some old files and found this. I don't think I ever posted it in this thread but, for sure, I'm not going thru it again just to see. What is the date of this reg? The mention of sergeant major suggests post WW2. Is there an earlier mention of the tab for the eppaulet or stripe under the rank in an AR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wailuna Posted December 31, 2012 Share #122 Posted December 31, 2012 ...Is there an earlier mention of the tab for the eppaulet or stripe under the rank in an AR? Eisenhower approved the concept “distinctive markings” for combat commanders on his own authority ca. mid-1944. It was his intention that these insignia would be worn in theater only (i.e., ETO), accordingly, these wartime insignia were not covered by War Department directives (source: Letter from Eisenhower to Marshall, May 24, 1944. Link here). Indeed, all of the wartime period photos of these “distinctive markings” actually being worn that are posted on this thread were taken in Europe except one evidently situated in the Z.I. (link here). A rare picture of the green stripe being worn by an NCO in postwar Japan was published by ASMIC in The Trading Post (Oct. - Dec. 2009, p. 15). Postwar combat leaders insignia were approved Army-wide as green shoulder loop tabs for qualified warrant officers and enlisted men in 1948 and qualified officers were included in this distinction in 1950 (source: Link here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl1944 Posted January 21, 2013 Share #123 Posted January 21, 2013 Here are two interesting photos from my collection, both showing the tabs on the field jackets of NCO's of the 106th Infantry Division. Pictures taken at an award ceremony on January 20th, 1945 at Stavelot, Belgium. Also note the green backing of the stars on the shoulder of the General who is handing the medals. Greetings,Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Ruff Posted January 21, 2013 Share #124 Posted January 21, 2013 Here are two interesting photos from my collection, both showing the tabs on the field jackets of NCO's of the 106th Infantry Division. Pictures taken at an award ceremony on January 20th, 1945 at Stavelot, Belgium. Also note the green backing of the stars on the shoulder of the General who is handing the medals. Greetings, Carl Carl, These images are important contributions in that they are among the few we've seen of the green Combat Leader tabs and stripes in wear during the war as opposed to immediately thereafter. Shade Ruff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl1944 Posted January 22, 2013 Share #125 Posted January 22, 2013 Hi Shade, That's what I thought too. There seem to be plenty of examples of them being worn on IKE jackets but very few on field jackets apparently. It might also be interesting to note that the men in the photos were members of the signal company. Greetings, Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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