Rocky.....
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post-256-1242902148_thumb.jpg Rocky, this amazing photo is captioned the 'Big Red One '' Crossing the Rhine..' but I think that's your insingna they are wearing..? :armata_PDT_37:


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Ah, too blurry for me to make out, but it also looks similar to the 101st Airborne patch. :pdt12: Add your units name here! :frown:

 

Wonder how many mistakes we could find in movies, regarding patches, etc. I'm sure there are many!

Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
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Ah, too blurry for me to make out, but it also looks similar to the 101st Airborne patch. :pdt12: Add your units name here! :frown:

 

Wonder how many mistakes we could find in movies, regarding patches, etc. I'm sure there are many!

 

M-1 I enlarged it and it's Big Red One--It's a square patch

with RED ONE in the middle. Thanks for thinking of me.

The 34th was in No. Africa and Italy ONLY. Rocky

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Here is a larger B/W version from the NARA website:

 

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This was the original caption:

 

"I drew an assault boat to cross in--just my luck. We all tried to crawl under each other because the lead was flying around like hail." Crossing the Rhine under enemy fire at St. Goar. March 1945. [Catalog number] 208-YE-132.

 

The best view is of the SSgt in the back.

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It is the SSI for the 89th Infantry Division who crossed the Rhine on 24 March, 1945 as part of the VIII Army Corps of Patton's 3rd Army.

 

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