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10-OCT-2005

151st

151st Infantry Regiment
Coat of Arms Pocket Patch

SHIELD
Azure, on a fess argent a prickly pear cactus
proper between a sheathed Roman sword palewise and a
fleur-de-lis of the first.

The shield is blue for infantry. The less charged with the
Roman sword, cactus, and fleur-de-lis, represent service
in the War with Spain, on the Mexican Border, and in France
during World War I.

MOTTO: Wide Awake - Wide Awake

CAMPAIGN STREAMERS

Mexican War
Buena Vista

Civil War
Henry and Donelson; Shiloh; Manassas; Antietam;
Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Vicksburg;
Chickamauga; Chattanooga; Wilderness; Atlanta; Spotsylvania;
Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Shenandoah

World War I
Streamer without inscription

World War II
New Guinea: Leyte; Luzon (with arrowhead)

DECORATIONS

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation,
Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 To 4 JULY 1945
(151st Infantry cited; DA GO 47, 1950)

Canon PowerShot S50
1/2s f/2.8 at 7.1mm full exif

other sizes: small original auto
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