Patches in action: Photos of SSI being worn by the troops.

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Major General George E. Stratemeyer, commander of the Army Air Forces in the China theater, wearing a motley assortment of uniform and insignia including the CBI theater SSI on his left sleeve, Army Air Forces SSI on his right sleeve, and Army Air Forces PTC DUIon his eppaulettes. I believe his uniform is a British tunic, and he is also wearing foreign (British?) wings and the tiny P-38 badge he has been noted for before.

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Commanders of the 13th AIr Force, icluding Brigadier General Earl W. Barnes, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith and Major General Thomas D. White, during World War II.

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Nurses of the 5th Air Force in the Admiralty Islands during World War II.

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Sergeant Orris Galland, 88th Infantry Division's. 788th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company, awarded a Bronze Star Star at Fobdi Italy

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One Dennis E. Keener HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, wearing his Khakis, and wearing a Khaki Base IVY Division patch, stateside, perhaps Fort Dix New Jersey in the summer of 1943.

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One Robert A. Green, Service Company, 395th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division,

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On 10/9/2020 at 7:31 PM, tredhed2 said:

Here's an example of the style of 504th, but not an example. Have never seen the oversized one.  They exist in twill and fully embr, from blank (as depicted), and H & H to HM.

Are you interested in selling it , I collect oversized chenille airborne patches I got about 8 you can see them on my site 

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4th Infantry Division on Honest John Crewmen at Ft Carson Colorado. Probaby in late 1965 into early 1966 before the division was sent to Vietnam, as we see a MACV Combat Patch there being worn.

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A mid-sh-late-sh  1968 photo of a member of the 1st Cavalry Division's LRRP unit, Company E, 52nd Infantry, S/Sgt Charles Windham. See how he's wearing the White on Blue AIRBORNE Tab under the Scroll rather then the Yellow on Black tab, the Tab previously worn in 1965-66 by the 1st Brigade (Airborne) of the division.

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Airborne Troop Carrier Command Patch sighting, location unknown, but two guesses come up, England before and or shortly after Overload or on the Continent a little later in the war

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A  late 1950s into the mid 1960s Ft Benning OCS fatigue shirt, note the wear of the OCS Patch on both Sleeves.

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Another Full Color Cav Patch in Combat sighting, photo sometime in 1966.

 

 

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8 hours ago, patches said:

A mid-sh-late-sh  1968 photo of a member of the 1st Cavalry Division's LRRP unit, Company E, 52nd Infantry, S/Sgt Charles Windham. See how he's wearing the White on Blue AIRBORNE Tab under the Scroll rather then the Yellow on Black tab, the Tab previously worn in 1965-66 by the 1st Brigade (Airborne) of the division.

The AIRBORNE tab looks gold on black to me.

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A LRRP from the 1st Brigade 5th Infantry Division in Vietnam. 

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Three shots of members of Company F 425th Infantry, all wearing the Michigan National Guard SSI. In the first photo, they appear to be wearing AIRBORNE tabs over the SSI. In the other two, they appear to be wearing the company scrolls.

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A subdued 1st Cavalry Division SSI with reversed colors worn in Vietnam in 1972. 

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A member of Company C 87th Infantry, a rifle security company assigned to the U.S. Army Support Activity, Saigon, wearing the U.S. Army Vietnam SSI and company scroll in 1972.

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Two soldiers/airmen guarding Air Force One and President Truman sometime in 1947. As the date is unknown, this could be right before or after the U.S. Air Force officially became a separate branch of service. The soldiers are wearing double enlisted Air Corps branch insignia and the Army Air Forces SSI with a tab (Air Transport Command?).  

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Members of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas in 1975.

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Members of the 101st Airborne Division wearing full color SSI during Exercise Bold Eagle in 1982.

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Wounded soldier of the 4th Infantry Division being given blood plasma on Utah Beach on D-Day.

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Fleet Marine Forces Pacific Supply

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Marine Detachment Iceland

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Col. Lewis "Chesty" Puller wearing the 1st Marine Division patch

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Major General Clifton Cates, commander of the 4th Marine Division, along with an officer of the 1st Marine Division.