Division shoulder patch

Please check back regularly because we are always adding new patches. Products U. ARMY U. NAVY U. MilitaryBest is fully licensed by all 5 branches of the military. They are made on felt or woollen cloth. We can also see badges that mix the two processes 'Cut and Paste' and 'Embroider'. In fact we glue or cost on a piece of fabric the symbol then we add embroidery afterwards.

In fact the military patch was embroidered on large strips of fabric usually Khaki or Olive Drab color and then cut by hand. We speak of manufacturing type 'Flat Edge', we also use the term 'Cut Edge'. The fabric used was cotton and the thread could be cotton or nylon. It should be noted that during World War II, there were several types of manufacturers:.

We can therefore find for the same unit, a multitude of different insignia, whether by the design, the materials used fabric texture, color of threads, The locally made insignia in canetille, although worn, was not authorized by the high command.

During the 50s, the fabric used was the same color as the background color of the badge which allowed to use less embroidery weft or a certain economy of thread. The 28th pushed east towards Paris through the bloating corpse-strewn stench of the Bocage through roads with abandoned tanks.

A small night patrol of the th Infantry Regiment began the division's protracted struggle on the Siegfried Line on the Dragon's teeth fortification infested Westwall. The 28th suffered excessive casualties that autumn in the costly and ill-conceived Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The divisional history conceded "the division accomplished little"[20] The campaign was the longest continuous battle of World War II.

Finally, a tenuous line along the Our and Sauer Rivers was held at the end of November, only to be abruptly broken by two Panzer divisions, three infantry divisions and one parachute division including nd Infantry Division and the 5th Parachute Division in an infantry-tank attack on the "Ridge Road" just west of the Our River on 16 December. At the end of November a German "pocket" of resistance formed in the French Alsace region centered in the city of Colmar.

The Colmar Pocket consisted of a strength of eight German divisions and a brigade of Panzer tanks. Combined forces of French and American armies were initially unsuccessful in closing this pocket.

Devers's western front. Two days later, de Lattre and Devers made a request to Eisenhower for reinforcements so their armies could make an offensive on the Colmar Pocket. Eisenhower's aide Major General Walter Bedell Smith subsequently told Devers that the 10th Armored Division and the 28th were being placed under his command.

Battle plans were soon made and, on 19 January, the 28th went into action on the northwestern section of the pocket in the Kaysersberg Valley supporting the beleaguered 3rd Infantry Division, which had been holding there since late November