[OKSooner]

The 45th once had the Indian (backwards) swastika as an insignia? I never knew that, I thought they had always been the Thunderbirds.

[VOA]

Sorry I'm in a rush...but here's a link on the topic at the new and improved website
for the 45th Infantry Division Museum --
http://www.45thdivisionmuseum.com/History/SwastikaToThunderbird.html

[VOA]

The 45th once had the Indian (backwards) swastika as an insignia? I never knew that,
I thought they had always been the Thunderbirds.

just an excuse for an extra bump...and explanation...
A good friend of mine in graduate school at OSU and his family rented a house
near the hospital (in Stillwater).
I suspect that some of these old rental houses might have pre-dated WWII.

Anyway, during a time when I helped the fellow do some renovation on the
home he rented, he mentioned the "swastika" in the brickwork of the
adjacent house.

Thanks to the load of trivia I've accumlated, I was able to calm him and explain
that he was looking at a reverse-"swastika" which had even graced the shoulder-patches
of the noble and decidedly ANTI-Nazi 45th Infantry Division.

I chuckled a bit at calming my friend from Indiana/Illinois...
he ended up being a decided partisan for Oklahoma!