10-03-2006, 08:40 AM
I'm from and still live in Detroit!
Cool. During the recent reunion that I attended, I learned that the DI pin for the 339th Infantry Regiment contained the flag/or/shield for Le Sieur Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the French founder of Detroit. The 339th Regiment was organized at Camp Custer, MI, and went off to WW1 as "Detroit's Own" but returned with the name of "The Polar Bears".
In the upper LH corner of the DI is a small square with 3 "merletts" on a field of yellow; two birds over a horizontal black bar and one below it.
Just thought you would like to know.
Steve