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Post by maxalot11 on Jul 26, 2011 17:03:00 GMT -5
Hello everyone, Im a present service member currently with the 1-14th Infantry at Schofield Barracks, Im doing a research report for my family members on my Great Grandfather, his name is Glenn Olaf Monsen, and I notice on his WWII Class A Dress Uniform he wears the 106th Infantry Patch on his combat shoulder, I also know as being Infantry he was an 11B(Infantryman) due to his uniform having the Cross Rifle Infantry Branch Insignia. His decorations include the Belgium Fourragere, ARGM, American Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal, and the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with Campaign Star. Please any information will be helpful seeing that im practically shooting blind right now. SGT Allen McKinney Attachments:
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Post by maxalot11 on Jul 26, 2011 17:04:11 GMT -5
Here is an extra 106th Patch he had on hand. Attachments:
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Post by connie on Jul 27, 2011 9:40:51 GMT -5
Good to have you with us and to be part of your search! Most of us in successive generations all began with the feeling that we were "shooting blind," too. Your current military position at least brings you in with some military expertise... I'm out of my depth in the reading of uniforms. But I'll give it a start and hope that others will chime in. The Golden Lion Patch midway along the left side of the collection of patches is definitely the 106th Infantry Division's patch. The triangular patches appear to be from Armored Divisions. The one on the uniform accompanied by the Hell on Wheels logo is the patch of the 2nd Armored Division: www.militaryvetshop.com/History/2ndArmored.htmlAccording to the history I read on the above site, the Second Armored Division, trained and later commanded by Patton, was in the ETO from shortly after D-Day (almost 6 months before the 106th arrived on the Continent) and was pulled into the Bulge shortly after the initial attacks (experienced by the 106th and others). The Hell on Wheels logo is now part of the 2nd Armored Division's patch. I'm guessing that your Great Grandfather's WWII patch was the version that pre-dated that patch. According to the above site, this was a proclamation made about the unit by Patten and later added to their patch logo. The existence of the Golden Lion patch and the cross rifle pins do argue for the possibility of some time in an infantry division and more particularly the 106th. But when? Could he have been one who trained with the 106th and was called out as a replacement for another division before or after D-Day? Are there other possibilities? Do you have access to any letters or discharge papers? Connie |
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Post by connie on Apr 17, 2014 11:30:38 GMT -5
Well, this post has aged far too long without being brought to the top again. I hope in the interim some progress has been made on discovering more history. I hope, too, that Carl or someone else with patch reading expertise will step in and correct my guesses. I did check Jim West's roster & don't see the name there yet...
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