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Charlie
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Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« on: Mar 5th, 2006, 5:37pm » |
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It's on the lower right sleeve of a WWII 82nd/101st Airborne officer's uniform that my friend found. He may have jumped into sticky territory in Europe. It looks European to us. Perhaps glider or commando stuff. We have had no luck. 
'Tis a puzzlement.
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« Reply #1 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 5:44pm » |
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it looks like some sort of patch sewn into an old army jacket er sumthin.
probably from around WW2, but thats just my guess
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 5:52pm » |
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found it on this page Charlie...I'll let you read it...
http://www.101airborneww2.com/insignia2.html
seems it was a small group that only existed a short while, what they did sounds really cool, that's really interesting stuff.
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« Reply #3 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 6:04pm » |
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Cool stuff, never heard of them.
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 6:25pm » |
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I don't know how to thank you. My friend Bill and I went all over sites looking for the thing. He's a serious collector of this stuff. I'm surprised he didn't know it. We both thought it might be some kind of weird special ops thing though. 
That's very nice little site too.
Hope I can help you sometime.
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« Reply #5 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 6:44pm » |
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Well, my grandpa was a Paratrooper with the 8th (I think) Airborne, but I don't remember seeing a patch like that on his uniform. It almost looks like maybe special forces within the division?
Not sure, sorry I can't help ya out Charlie. 
Woops, sorry, didn't see the post above. Nevermind!
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
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I got lucky in my google search, glad I could pass that luck on to you Charlie. I am glad I could help you out, thanks for hanging out and being so simply supportive and kind to folks here all these years.
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« Reply #7 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 6:46pm » |
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Great info. I had no idea
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« Reply #8 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 7:26pm » |
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Cool. When I was in Alaska I got some old Soviet stuff for my kid it was pretty cool.
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« Reply #9 on: Mar 6th, 2006, 6:04am » |
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Charlie,
That was very nice of John D... but I think you shouldnt believe him;.........
That is one of my golden wings from the Covina Skate -O-Rama, where I rollerskated my way to semi-stardom as a child..........
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« Reply #10 on: Mar 6th, 2006, 11:31am » |
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WOW
This was some interresting reading
Just GREAT
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Re: Does Anyone Know WTF this is?
« Reply #11 on: Mar 7th, 2006, 9:41am » |
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If anyone is interested heres a cool site it's named after my nephew in law Christopher.seeing the airborne patch made me think of it.
http://www.sgtchristopherpusateri.org/
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