seanmc1114 Posted July 10, 2020 Share #4651 Posted July 10, 2020 Armored Forces SSI worn by Sgt. Frank F. Reyna , Company B, 735th Tank Battalion, after receiving the Distinguished Service Cross from Maj. Gen. Stafford LeRoy Irwin (5th Infantry Division). Reyna received the decoration during a ceremony held at the 735th command post, Pagny-sur-Moselle, France. October 8, 1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 10, 2020 Share #4652 Posted July 10, 2020 2nd Armored Division SSI with HELL ON WHEELS tab worn during World War II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 10, 2020 Share #4653 Posted July 10, 2020 World War I Ambulance Service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 10, 2020 Share #4654 Posted July 10, 2020 94th Infantry Division Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted July 10, 2020 Share #4655 Posted July 10, 2020 94th Infantry DivisionNice helmet shots.Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4656 Posted July 13, 2020 2nd Corps MP, the Cassino region February 44, two Britshers of their 46th Infantry division there with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4657 Posted July 13, 2020 The 761st Tank Battalion.s numbered Armored Triangle, a curious one as this seems to be a pre overseas portrait right, normally these numbered triangles are seen in post war 45-46. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4658 Posted July 13, 2020 78th Infantry Division summer 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4659 Posted July 13, 2020 An Alamo Scout vet, strange he's not wearing a CIB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4660 Posted July 13, 2020 Colonel Howard Snyder jr 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment C.O. May 1952-August 1953. Snyder would be a Major General by Vietnam. https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/112556 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4661 Posted July 13, 2020 The 761st Tank Battalion.s numbered Armored Triangle, a curious one as this seems to be a pre overseas portrait right, normally these numbered triangles are seen in post war 45-46.It's looks like a woolie. woolies were made before WW2, and during I suppose.Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4662 Posted July 13, 2020 3 hours ago, patches said: Colonel Howard Snyder jr 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment C.O. May 1952-August 1953. Snyder would be a Major General by Vietnam. https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/112556 This was his father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McCrum_Snyder And Snyder Jr's OBIT with Service BIO. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152338867/howard-mccrum-snyder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4663 Posted July 13, 2020 An 8th Armored Division GI summer of 1944 curiously wearing that Ft Knox Armored Forced Replacement Training Center DI on his cap. BUT it could be that he's wearing it because for most of the war the 8th Armd Div was a Training Division for the Armored Forces at Cp Polk Louisiana and the wear of it was not exclusive to Ft Knox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4664 Posted July 13, 2020 3 hours ago, BILL THE PATCH said: It's looks like a woolie. woolies were made before WW2, and during I suppose. Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk But with the Tank Battalion number at this early stage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4665 Posted July 13, 2020 Yes, there are a few "3" numbered units. There is a forum member always looking for them. Very hard to findSent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4666 Posted July 13, 2020 A member of the 15th Infantry Regiment wearing what appears to be the Philippine Department SSI. The webpage where I found this photo indicates the soldier served with Company I 15th Infantry in Tientsin, China from 1936 to 1938. Wikipedia says the 1st Battalion was located in the Philippines but the remainder of the regiment served in China. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cbi-tientsin-chinese-embroidery-1936-1886743573 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4667 Posted July 13, 2020 4 hours ago, seanmc1114 said: A member of the 15th Infantry Regiment wearing what appears to be the Philippine Department SSI. The webpage where I found this photo indicates the soldier served with Company I 15th Infantry in Tientsin, China from 1936 to 1938. Wikipedia says the 1st Battalion was located in the Philippines but the remainder of the regiment served in China. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cbi-tientsin-chinese-embroidery-1936-1886743573 Interesting photo Sean, like why the French Rope? plus he's wearing another DI on his pocket flap, looks maybe like the 12th Infantry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 13, 2020 Share #4668 Posted July 13, 2020 It's worth saving the full image of this nicely embroidered framed photo, also to see the Third Reich, Italian and Japanese Flags in the motif, who at that time, all members of the International Community in Tientsin 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 14, 2020 Share #4669 Posted July 14, 2020 The Institute of Heraldry identifies this SSI as Victory Task Force. The yearbook in the attached link identifies the unit as the United States Army War Show Provisional Task Force. At any rate, this has to be a truly rare SSI. I guess the unit was a travelling road show that put on public demonstrations of the Army's capabilities for morale and war bond raising purposes. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1217&context=ww_reg_his Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted July 15, 2020 Share #4670 Posted July 15, 2020 The Institute of Heraldry identifies this SSI as Victory Task Force. The yearbook in the attached link identifies the unit as the United States Army War Show Provisional Task Force. At any rate, this has to be a truly rare SSI. I guess the unit was a travelling road show that put on public demonstrations of the Army's capabilities for morale and war bond raising purposes. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1217&context=ww_reg_his Actually it's a very common patch. Not very rare. They go for around 20-25.Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 15, 2020 Share #4671 Posted July 15, 2020 54 minutes ago, BILL THE PATCH said: Actually it's a very common patch. Not very rare. They go for around 20-25. Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk I didn't mean that the patch itself is rare or particularly valuable. I was referring to the rarity of period photos showing it being worn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted July 15, 2020 Share #4672 Posted July 15, 2020 20 minutes ago, seanmc1114 said: I didn't mean that the patch itself is rare or particularly valuable. I was referring to the rarity of period photos showing it being worn. Oops, sorry about that. Didn't read that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysteriousoozlefinch Posted July 17, 2020 Share #4673 Posted July 17, 2020 Soldier of the 5th Division with M1911 pistol belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 23, 2020 Share #4674 Posted July 23, 2020 Capt. Robert Kirkpatrick of the 79th Infantry Division tells Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Commander of VII Corps, the part his unit played in the capture of the fort overlooking the city and harbor of Cherbourg, France. It looks like the captain's jacket may have the ghost of removed SSI under his 79th patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted July 23, 2020 Share #4675 Posted July 23, 2020 Maj Gen Paul J. Mueller, commanding general of the 81st Infantry Division, shakes hand with Sgt. Harold Sabath, Headquarters Company, 1138th Combat Engineer Group, who has just received the Soldiers Medal at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. April 3, 1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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