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iron bender

Great pic! Two things jump out at me. Three of the above tankers are wearing WW2 flak helmets, at least one appearing to be the cloth covered model. Also, some post war (WW2) m1 carbine mag pouches are clearly marked on the interior flap, magazine pouch for .30 carbine or rifle M1. Check the paratrooper standing in front of the tank, M1 rifle and at least three carbine mag pouches.

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Here's a good website to check out, it has lots of info and pics of 50s era paras showing a lot of different helmet markings http://home.hiwaay.net/~magro/oldnew1.html you have to dig around but its a great site!...and here's a research chart I made with 50s era airborne helmet markings, some are identified some are a mystery for the moment!....mike

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What unit designator is the helmet with the pentagon on it? Is it the 511th??

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What unit designator is the helmet with the pentagon on it? Is it the 511th??

Thad

Hi Thad...yes the pentagon tac mark is for the 11AB 511th....mike
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Hi Thad...yes the pentagon tac mark is for the 11AB 511th....mike

 

Thanks for the response mike! I have a 511th marked helmet line but the helmet did not have any markings. My grandfather was in the 511th during the Korean war era but he said he had never seen the tactical marking on the helmet before.

 

Thad

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Airborne-Hunter

A friend of mine recently picked this up and I thought it worth posting. I think its 408th Quartermaster. Green T1 clips. Best ABN

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13 hours ago, patches said:

If I may add this portrait of a Trooper of the  503rd Airborne Infantry.

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Great photo Patches, but i think what we have here is actually 11AB 457th AFA with the smaller double white circle tac marks with the 503rds having a much larger white circle tac mark, i think the other small white circle is just barely out of sight from the camera and helmet angle👍🏻...mike

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10 hours ago, sgtdorango said:

Great photo Patches, but i think what we have here is actually 11AB 457th AFA with the smaller double white circle tac marks with the 503rds having a much larger white circle tac mark, i think the other small white circle is just barely out of sight from the camera and helmet angle👍🏻...mike

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Yes that could be it, good call.

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4 hours ago, patches said:

Here's one, the one with the Triangle, it's for what, the Signal unit right. Campbell sometime in the 50-52 period,

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Looks like a 187th shoulder patch as well. 

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18 hours ago, elh1311 said:

Looks like a 187th shoulder patch as well. 

That would be a negative elh, photo taken at Cp Campbell the 187th was not at Campbellthen, has since the late summer of 1950 when it's detached from the 11th Abn Div and sent to Japan, their White bordered RTC patch I think comes out sometime in 1953 right.

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9 hours ago, patches said:

That would be a negative elh, photo taken at Cp Campbell the 187th was not at Campbellthen, has since the late summer of 1950 when it's detached from the 11th Abn Div and sent to Japan, their White bordered RTC patch I think comes out sometime in 1953 right.

That's a great point. Can't really tell from the pic but it would be neat to know what unit that patch is for. 

 

Edit: looks like an 11th Airborne patch once ya zoom in. Now back to helmets!

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13 hours ago, elh1311 said:

That's a great point. Can't really tell from the pic but it would be neat to know what unit that patch is for. 

 

Edit: looks like an 11th Airborne patch once ya zoom in. Now back to helmets!

That's what it is, the sub unit is the Signals unit of the 11th Abn Div.

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Great photo of the 11AB Signals!...heres a pic of one in my collection and at some point for reasons unknown maybe around 54/55 they switched their tac mark to a white guidon👍🏻.....mike

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