508th Airborne Infantry Regiment

Worn as a Pocket Patch from:
October 1942 - November 1946 (Unauthorized).
Pocket Patch Inactivated 22 March 1957

Although this patch was (Unauthorized), it is an
original patch most likely worn locally.

The design is of a red devil with parachute.
In one hand he holds a grenade and in the other
a tommy gun.

Campaigns:
World War II
(Normandy, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe).

Decorations:

Distinguished Unit Citation
(streamer embroidered Cotentin Peninsula)

French Croix de Guerre with Palm
(streamer embroidered Ste Mere Eglise, Cotentin)

French Fourragere; cited in the Order of the Day
Belgiam army for the Ardennes, Belgium, Germany,
and St. Vith

Belgian Fouragere 1940;

Netherlands Military Order of William
(streamer embroidered Nijmegen 1944);
and Netherlands Orange Lanyard.