Patches from the Army's overseas commands are among the most distinctive -- and unheralded -- shoulder patches of World War II. They are colorful, in most cases short-lived, and showcase an armed ...

During World War II, the Allies used everything at their disposal to defeat the Axis powers, including a lot of trickery. We explore one such trick: the Ghost Army units, groups of soldiers armed ...

The combat patch is a long-standing tradition in the Army and while it may not specifically designate that a soldier has seen action, it is a rite of passage that only comes with a combat deployment.

The "Ghost Army" unit ran more ... Veterans of a top-secret World War II unit that used ... His friend, 100-year-old Nussembaum, is from New Jersey and made counterfeit uniform patches ...

Eligibility for the patch "does not authorize pay entitlements such as hostile fire pay, imminent danger pay, or combat zone ...

Robert Mitchell, Curator at the Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, shows a patch from British Brigadier Orde Wingate’s Chindits that was given to a U.S. Air Commando Soldier in WWII.

The Army Futures Command was created last August and charged with leading the Army's 10-year modernization effort. New Patches, Unit Insignia Out for Army Futures Command Soldiers | Military.com ...

As Army’s museum system seeks to shed thousands of excess artifacts. ... The World War II officer’s boots were banged-up, ... distinctive unit insignia,” he said.

"Although the majority of our Army today has earned the combat patch, we know that many of us will wear it for the first time today," said Chaplain (Maj.) Sid Taylor, 2nd HBCT, 3rd ID, during the ...

The culmination of the Ghost Army’s work, its masterpiece, was impersonating two full divisions of the 9th Army so those units could sneak over the Rhine River into Germany’s industrial heart ...