“One of our really early ones is the 1105th Aero Replacement Squadron ‘flying elephant’ patch from WWI,” said Mitchell. ... 2020 U.S. Army authorizes combat patch for service in Somalia; ...

At the end of WWI, many Air Service units created shoulder patches from the roundel painted on aircraft wings. These roundels were often combined with their larger unit, as in the First Army patch ...

Army patches tend to be a little more official, but as long as they’ve been around – and they go back more than 100 years to WWI – there have been some weird ones. This is the U.S. Army ...

Before he would lead the U.S. 3rd Army across western Europe, Gen. George Patton spent the first half of 1944 in charge of a somewhat different command. It was the First U.S. Army Group, or FUSAG ...

Patch was buried in the cathedral in the city of Wells, southwest England, where he lived. He joined the army at the age of 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres, Belgium, in 1917.

"Like for our H-19 Chickasaws, they asked Walt Disney, a former Red Cross ambulance driver in post-WW1 France, to design the insignia." "Patches come and go," said Mitchell.