Hi JC, somewhere in the dust bins of all my stuff, I have (or had) about 15 WWII American shoulder patches. If I can find them--and thats a BIG if, i'll gladly give them to you. All of them are Infantry Division patches including:

1st Inf Div "Big Red One" 2nd Inf Div, 3rd Inf Div "the Blue and White Devils/Rock of the Marne Div" 4th Inf Div "Ivy Leafs" and I forget what the others are that I have as it's been about 20 years since I last saw them. Anyway, all are original WWII American patches-and as I do not collect American, I really don't care what they might be worth today but would be happy to give them to someone who has more use for them than I do. Also, I have an unissued pair of WWII Master-Sergeants Chevs/. Last time I saw these, they were with the shoulder patches. Anyway, like I said above, IF I can find them, I will let you know and give them to you. There should be a total of about 15 different shoulder pathes and the one set of Master Sergeants Stripes.

If it turns out that I no longer have them, you can blame that on my oldest Brother, as I caught him trying to throw them away at one time back in 1988. I was able to rescue my Dads stuff as well as my Grandfathers stuff.

Best regards--Carl.

PS, most of the patches-if I recall correctly, were in excellent condition but some were taken off of uniforms. The Master Sergeants stripes had that blu-greyish color around the edges-which is how I know those were WWII made patches.

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