US Army Shoulder Patches and Related Insignia: From WWI to Korea - 41st Division to 106th Division General History more than half a million

more than half a million of them Americans

along with the rifts in the Franco-American military marriage

which illegally agitated for peace and a proletarian revolution

in both their form and content

The Sinai and Palestine campaigns generally followed a pattern of heavy losses and setbacks for an initial period before allied forces eventually prevailed

US Army Shoulder Patches and Related Insignia: From WWI to Korea - 41st Division to 106th Division General History more than half a millionDescription by William & Kurt Keller Hardcover Beginning in the Civil War, the U. S. Army sought to find an effective system to distinguish troops from different units. In the closing days of World War I, it finally arrived at a practical and desirable solution with the adoption of the shoulder patch or shoulder sleeve insignia. For more than eighty years, this often simple device, has been the source of pride and inspiration for servicemen