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21st General Hospital
Reviresco


Womac Army Medical Center


232nd Support Battalion
Satisfy the Need


18th Support Battalion
We Forge Ahead


5th Infantry Regiment
I'll Try Sir

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Please overlook my very limited skills on the computer as I am in that post war boomer group and made my living as a plumber and am just really getting to where I will attempt to use this thing. I hope there is someone here that might be able to help me locate the correct D.U.I. design for my father's WWII unit. He was a mechanic in the 37th Fighter Sqaudron, 6th AAF in Panama. One of his favorate story's was telling people that he had once driven a jeep from the East coast to the West in 1 1/2 hours, not telling them that he was in Panama, wish I new how many times I heard that story. Wish I could hear it one more time. Thanks for any help, Alan in S.C.

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114th Infantry Regiment which as far as I can tell had no ties to either the 29th ID or 4th Army? This is a strange one.
In Omnia Paratus


18th Field Artillery

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This one took me a while to figure out. It's misidentified as so many things online (even a boy scout pin) but it's really for...

 

Norwich University, Military College of Vermont

 

I Will Try

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Should be "Primus Inter Pares" or "First Among Equals"

Can a mod go back and edit my post so this is correct for anyone searching for the motto?

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Take a look at http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/. Hopefully, you can find at least some of what you are looking for there.

 

Also, you may want to consider joining the American Society of Military Insignia Collectors (ASMIC). They have a website at www.ASMIC.org. Membership is open worldwide and they publish many catalogs and periodicals concerning insignia. It also provides information about others who share your same collecting interests.

 

Laury

 

Larry you can get alot of US Army DUI from this web site. http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Heraldry...myHeraldry.aspx

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Not all DIs are metal; here are a few cloth examples.

 

L-R, top: 801st TD; 802nd TD (both WW II, US-made); 160th IR (Japanese made, KW)

L-R, bot: 751st MP Bn (WW II, US-made); 8225th WAC Bn (Japanese made, KW); 6th AC (German made)

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Co C, 716th ROB had the greatest notoriety of any US Army unit during WW II. Co C, which in all the railway battatlions had the train crews, was involved w/ the largest monetary loss by a unit utilizing the theft of entire trainloads of materiel after D-Day until Sept 44. Almost 200 men of the company were arrested by Army CID. The EM were given a choice: Leavenworth or a rifle company (the officers went to Leavenworth). These DIs are plentiful. Not too many men want to be remembered by serving in this unit, whether they were a replacement or not. This DI is for the 716th ROB.

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