Post your military armbands.

[Cobra 6 Actual]

Thanks for posting, EE87. We’ll need a “snaps expert” to weigh in, but I can tell you it is most probably a 1950’s to 1960’s armband, just based on the construction.

 

Just to shift direction for a moment, here’s a YWCA GR (for Girls Reserve) armband:

 

[Cobra 6 Actual]

One of the YWCA GR Girls Reserve’s most notable WWII programs was setting up programs for Japanese-American girls in the Government’s internment camps.

[Cobra 6 Actual]

This is an armband from the Girl Scouts:

 

 

This program was started in 1941, originally as an extension of civil defense training.

[easterneagle87]

Picked up this snap shot today. shows a US Army soldier with an armband that reads, GUARD.

 

Back says, Taken Sunday, Nov. 8, 1942, Love, Bud 

[Cobra 6 Actual]

Nice clear picture, EE87. Of course we collectors always appreciate seeing an item we collect, such as armbands, “in the wild” and confirmed as to date of use. Thanks!

[patches]

A curious site of Black Mourning armband on these MP of a South Korea based unit, (Can't make out their helmet decal).

 

Caption with photo

South Korea, April, 1968: MPs carry the flag-draped caskets of Sgt. James L. Anderson of Camp Springs, Md., and Spc. 4 Larry M. Wood of Barstow, Ill., who along with two South Koreans were killed while on patrol at the DMZ. Two other Americans were wounded in the ambush.

[patches]

12 minutes ago, patches said:

A curious site of Black Mourning armband on these MP of a South Korea based unit, (Can't make out their helmet decal).

 

Caption with photo

South Korea, April, 1968: MPs carry the flag-draped caskets of Sgt. James L. Anderson of Camp Springs, Md., and Spc. 4 Larry M. Wood of Barstow, Ill., who along with two South Koreans were killed while on patrol at the DMZ. Two other Americans were wounded in the ambush.

On close study we find the patch on the Brassard is that UN HQ patch with Tab.

[Cobra 6 Actual]

Thanks, patches, as usual; both for posting the original picture and deciphering the unit from the wee patch pic.

[Cobra 6 Actual]

[Old Marine]

I picked this up with a few WWII patches.  I’ve never been able to figure out its meaning.  Could "COMPT" mean compartment as on a troop ship?  Or, does "COMPT" mean competition?  

[Salvage Sailor]

Two good guesses.  Is the strap elastic or pined/tied.

[Salvage Sailor]

On 12/5/2018 at 1:43 PM, Red Devil said:

This one I picked up this last year but haven't been able to identify. Anyone have any idea what it is?

 

 

 

Could be Harbor Security Police

 

[Salvage Sailor]

On 10/15/2021 at 5:01 PM, patches said:

And this late WWII or early Post WWII GI, and Armband that has a P on it, has another or other letters on it, but can't see it or them.

Could be P M -->  Provost Marshall

[Old Marine]

The strap is tied, thin cotton webbing.  

[Salvage Sailor]

5 minutes ago, Old Marine said:

The strap is tied, thin cotton webbing.  

 

I'm also thinking Compartment First Sergeant, temporary position on a transport (AP, APA, etc.)

 

[Old Marine]

Thanks, that was my thought too.  

[Thrifter_01]

WW2 Medic armband used in the late 1950's. Photo is not the same armband but an example of its use.

 

 

 

 

[easterneagle87]

Here are two I found and sold,

[easterneagle87]

Here's another one I got and I realized I kept.

[Cobra 6 Actual]

Whoa, a whole lot of new armbands posted! Hey, EE87, I’ve got one of those little armbands, too:

 

 

It’s actually kind of cool!

[Cobra 6 Actual]

[Cobra 6 Actual]

GI Bringback:

 

[patches]

One Leo “Bill” Disher United Press, wearing the Correspondent Armband with Big C, Purple Heart for wounds during the Invasion of North Africa, says on a few pages on him tha he was wounded 25 times, probably meant he had lets say 25 separated shrapnel wounds about the body.

[Thrifter_01]

USMC armband that was found today, has both US and ROK Marine emblems. I believe the pin is what held it up on the sleeve.

[Cobra 6 Actual]

That’s an excellent find. Thrifter_01. Thanks for posting it!