77th Division HQ DUI WWII

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The old 77th Division seems to have been the only Reserve Division that adopted a DI for it's HQ and by extension it's support units, these being non color bearing., which apparently had different colors by branch This one on a WWII 77th Infantry Division MP IKE Jacket is in the colors of  a Yellow and Green the branch colors of the Military Police.

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DI was adopted by the way in 1938.

[27Division18]

Thanks for the information

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Found this great portrait of a GI wearing these, stateside, maybe taken at Fort Jackson South Carolina. Can't guess on the color of this DI as unit is unknown and branch is unknown as this Pfc is wearing a U.S. Disc rather than a Branch one, which we see now and again on Non Trainees stateside, usually stateside.

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Found another An odd one. A 30s into WWII 77th Div Windmill, sold awhile ago, says it is for the 77th Division Motorcycle Company, which there was one, in the 20s into the 30s. Motorcycle Company No 302. Buutt, by the time this crest comes out in 1938, there are no more Motorcycle Companies in the Infantry Divisions, at least by 1939. Your thoughts please. Also would you say this is all White in color?

[tredhed2]

Yes, all white.

 

Capistrano says that when the Army morphed into 3 inf regts from 4, many of the Div HQ were transferred to div recon troops that may have continued wearing the Bde HQ DI. He has a couple pages of inf bde HQ DIs; many are all white. Have no idea what the bde for the 77th Div was.  

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Here a unopened Vanguard card for the HQ, of the then designated 77th ARCOM, card from the 70s I think. Would be interesting to know if then in the late 60s into the 70s, as today with it's new designation the 77th Sustainment Brigade  if other color Windmills are used like in the late 30s into WWII and the 60s before the 77th Division was inactivated in 1965, and before it was resurrected as an ARCOM in 1968.

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Another curious one. Its described as Aviation, but I think that's a error as by the time the Windmill DI comes out in 1938, the 77th Division no longer has a Aviation asset  anymore, not since 1929 or so, so maybe it is for the division's Chemical Service unit Colbolt Blue and Yellow?, though no Chemical Service unit is listed in it's Order of Battle in the 20s or 30s,

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Nothing curious on this one, yes, the 77th Division Windmill for the division's 152nd Field Artillery Brigade.