U.S. soldiers wear an emblem on the left shoulder: insignia denoting Air Forces, Service Forces, corps, Army commands, etc. But the men who wear division patches wear them with special pride. Any patch may mark a fighting man but the division patch marks a man who has been assigned to fighting as his basic job. On the following pages are a few of the many division patches which have become symbols of American courage on battlefields around the world. The outfits mentioned here were chosen simply as a typical cross section of the...
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