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To: SandRat

Real heroes. I see the one chap has an A for Airborne.


2 posted on 10/08/2009 5:20:38 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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To: Frantzie
I was talking with a vet of Bastogne the other day. I asked him about where he served, he said "Belgium...F*ing Belgium! Boy was it cold! I still don't like the cold." He had some interesting things to say about his officers as well.
6 posted on 10/08/2009 5:25:49 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Truth--The liberal's Kryptonite)
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To: Frantzie

If you are talking about the A with a circle around it, I believe that was the patch for the 1st Army not airborne.


12 posted on 10/08/2009 5:29:43 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Frantzie
My name sake was kill in the battle. I remember when my father died in 72 and at the funeral grounds I was looking around and looked down and saw what I thought was my name it turned out to be the uncle whom I was named after very freaky moment.
13 posted on 10/08/2009 5:33:20 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
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To: Frantzie

Those were Armored Division patches.


19 posted on 10/08/2009 5:47:48 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Frantzie

That is the patch of Patton’s 3rd Army


21 posted on 10/08/2009 5:56:55 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: Frantzie

Believe that is 3rd army ensignia

My dad didn`t quite make the Battle of the Buldge,caught
a tree burst that left him with a scar from his right
shoulder to below his left hip

Dad would have been 100 in Feb


22 posted on 10/08/2009 5:59:34 PM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: Frantzie
Google images for "Third Army Patch" returns a ton of these:


25 posted on 10/08/2009 6:05:27 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The People have abdicated our duties; ... and anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses)
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