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101st Airborne KIA grouping


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Hello!!!

 

Yesterday, I received these lot:

 

The owner was sergeant David T. Sitton who was killed in action in 1969, with only 20 years, when he was defending an artillery position.

 

Can you identify the crests?

 

The seller, who was his neughbour, told me that David was awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

Can anyboy comfirmed these information?

 

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Hello!!!

 

Yesterday, I received these lot:

 

The owner was sergeant David T. Sitton who was killed in action in 1969, with only 20 years, when he was defending an artillery position.

 

Can you identify the crests?

 

The seller, who was his neughbour, told me that David was awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

Can anyboy comfirmed these information?

 

p1010202.jpg

 

p1010206v.jpg

 

p1010214x.jpg

 

 

The DI's are for the 82nd A/B, headquarters, I believe.

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I find this information:

 

http://www.virtualwall.org/ds/SnellRM01a.htm

 

He is named in the low part:

 

HHC, 3rd Brigade, 101st Abn Div

 

* SGT David T. Sitton, Pueblo, CO

 

What is mean HHC?

 

Thank you

 

Headquarters and Headquarters Company. The first "Headquarters" refers to the brigade commander's staff and the "Headquarters Company" refers to the unit to which the commander and staff are administratively assigned and also includes the cooks, mechanics, adminstrative clerks, communications specialists, etc. who are not on the immediate staff but support the staff.

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"Can you identify the crests?"

 

 

Those are DI's for the Noncolor Bearing Units (NCBU) of the 82nd Airborne Division. From the US Army Institute of Heraldry website-

 

"The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 23 October 1942. It was redesignated for the Command and Control Battalion, 82d Airborne Division on 21 April 1958. It was redesignated for the noncolor bearing units of the 82d Airborne Division on 6 June 1966. The insignia was cancelled and a distinctive unit insignia of the same design as the shoulder sleeve was authorized on 31 July 1990. The original insignia was reinstated on 21 May 1998."

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