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Ww2 Military Patches - 2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Field Artillery Museum volunteer Steven Burns uses his contacts with shoulder patch collectors to assemble their entire collection for a new gallery of a museum. Here he pointed out one of the most famous, The Golden Falls of ... (Photo Credit: U.S. ) SEE ORIGINAL

FORT SILL, Oklahoma (September 4, 2019) -- They're called shoulder sleeve insignia, abbreviated as SSI, but no one calls them by their proper name.

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For the hoi polloi, they will always be a "shoulder patch." And why shouldn't the rank and file have the last word, since they had the idea in the first place?

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Their superior officer intended to stop them, but had to rethink that decision because -- well, you find out.

"One of the problems with military museums is that most of the artifacts in the museum are green, brown or black, or some combination thereof. So there is not much color in most military museums," said id -Director of the Gordon Blaker Field Artillery Museum.

"One of the ways to increase this is to use flags, which I do, and I also use different types of insignia that have some color on them.

“And one of the ways I did that a few years ago was, there was a poster that was made in World War I of all the shoulder sleeve insignia of the unit.

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"And I've noticed over the last few years that it's probably the panel that more people look at in the museum than any other panel. It's amazing. It's just very popular.

"And so the idea is to get some color in the museum, and also these shoulder sleeve insignia are very popular with visitors. Part of it is that all the veterans can point out that they were in this l -unit or in that unit.And new Soldiers looking for which unit they are going to, and all that.

"And so, as part of this new addition, we've decided to create a panel of shoulder sleeve insignia of all armies, corps, and divisions. And then we'll create a second, smaller panel of other types of units of the Second World War, such as armored divisions and the like. And then we did another panel of all the field artillery brigades and also the school patches.

"And then we did a fourth panel of all the major units of the Vietnam War. And the first three were all mounted on the wall on (August 28, 2019)," Blaker said.

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The focus of the new Field Artillery Museum gallery is 1945 to the present, so many of the shoulder patches found there are for units active today.

"But most of the patches we used on the big panel were all World War II or earlier vintage. About 90 percent of them. Because I wanted to go with the earliest patches that I could get to each one, without too much unprofessional work. So we have about six of them World War I vintage, and most of the rest are World War II. There are probably five that are newer than that. But it's an effort to patch up World War II, because that's where I saw all of them,” Blaker said.

Each of the patches has a number, the nickname if applicable, and what era the patch is actually from. The Vietnam panel is the only panel that has not been attached to a wall, and this is because the wall has not yet been built.

Which brings us to the team that put together the shoulder sleeve insignia project, because it's not the work of any particular person.

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Exhibition Specialist Zane Mohler did all the pre-work as well as some of the wrapping details once the panels were all in, like putting Plexiglas over them and mounting them to the walls. He would make a wooden frame, then Yvette Percival would prepare the muslin cloth on which the patches would be placed. He washed it, ironed it, stretched it on the frame, and put a backing board behind it.

Museum volunteer Steven Burns, a veteran of the Pershing missile era, explained his role in assembling the complete patch set:

"I was given a bunch of patches, and I filled, according to the number, and many empty places. So I have a series of people that I work with, not related to the museum, with whom I exchange patches (including) and And so on. And I can put it out there: I need this patch, this patch, this patch. And (with) the period of time that I really want, but whatever. If I get a lot of patches, then I took the earliest and I arranged them. I put them all on the board."

Then Percival sewed them together with muslin. Museum volunteer Rod Roadruck did all the labeling showing unit numbers, nicknames, and time periods. Burns credits Blaker with all the quality control, and Blaker also credits the American Society of Military Insignia Collectors, Dave Kaufman, and Johnson for helping the shoulder sleeve insignia project is carried out. Note: This article may include affiliate links, and purchases made may earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. Find out more here.

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Our soldiers and sailors can now win seventeen new service decorations and medals — all adopted from the emergency of war [WWII]. Popular Science Monthly presents these new awards, and the main older ones.

In the crucial months since September 8, 1939, when President Roosevelt declared a state of national emergency, at least 17 new medals and ribbons were authorized for award by the President or senior military officers.

Today, servicemen, many of whom have returned from combat duty in foreign theaters of war, are beginning to appear on the streets of our towns and cities with shiny new ribbons displayed on their chests, each of them it tells a story about the wearer, if you can decipher its meaning.

Two of the new decorations — the Legion of Merit and the Air Medal — were created for personnel of both armed services. The Legion of Merit will also be awarded to military personnel of friendly foreign countries.

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A series of service medals, including the American Defense Service Medal, the German Army of Occupation Medal (1918-1923), and the campaign medals for the three theaters of -world war — American European-African-Middle Eastern, and Asian-Pacific - were also designed for the Army and Navy.

In addition, the Navy adopted for its own use two established Army decorations, the Silver Star and the Purple Heart, and authorized a new medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Medal (design not yet approved) for itself its branches. The Army — established the Good Conduct Medal to enhance the list of awards for its own personnel.

Finally, Congress authorized a Medal of Merit (design not yet approved) as the civilian counterpart of the Legion of Merit and, for the first time in history, two other awards specifically intended for merchant seamen, the -Merchant Marine and Torpedoed Distinguished Service Medal. Sailor Bar.

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Two other unique awards have recently been established: the Army's Organization Blue Unit Citation and the Navy's Presidential Unit Citation, each a ribbon indicating that the wearer belongs to an armed forces unit that has been mentioned twice by the President.

These devices approximate the working of the Fourragère, the famous braided shoulder cord given by the French to members of all United States organizations. Army mentioned in the First World War.

The badges of honor worn by members of our armed forces fall into two main categories. Decorations, properly speaking, are awards for outstanding heroism or bravery, both combat and non-combat, or for extremely valuable and meritorious service.

Service medals, on the other hand, are intended to show that recipients participated in specific campaigns, regardless of their duties. To conserve critical metals, some of the new medals will not be issued for the duration, only appropriate ribbons will be issued.

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Some of the new service decorations and medals represent a radical departure from tradition. The Legion of Merit, for example, was the first medal issued in different grades. It is designed in four levels — that of Commander-in-Chief, Commander, Officer, and Legionnaire.

Ribbons worn instead of medals are arranged on the wearer's left breast, starting from the right, in order of decorations. When more than one line is worn, the lines overlap. Service medals follow the decorations in order of date of service, with the Good Conduct Medal worn to the left of all service medals.

The Oak Leaf Clusters, representing additional citations, are worn