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Polish Badges

The Polish insignia was very unique and colorful. They wore colorful enamel pins on their collars to denote their unit or branch of service. Most were in the shape of a pennant or "swallow tails". They also wore a unit badge on the front of their coat pocket.

These badges are quite rare. There are some good museum qualities out there and I find it difficult to distinguish between the two.

Here are some badges worn by Polish II Corps troops in WW2. These examples are not the colorful ones. The badges for the smaller units, such as brigades, regiments, cavalry, etc., had badges made of muliple pieces and some were colored enamel.

 

Steve

 

II Corps

Polish_2Corps.jpg

Symbol of the II Corps was the Mermaid holding a shield and sword.

They also wore a red/white patch on the sleeve with the mermaid figure.

 

3rd Carparthian Infantry Division

Polish_3_CarparthianDiv.jpg

Shown attached to coat pocket.

The cedar tree was the symbol of the 3rd Infantry Division.

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