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Home collections army combat service identification badges. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on javascript in your browser. The eighth infantry patch was worn from april 1919 to 1992. Parts of the division served in operation desert storm in the 1991 liberation of kuwait. The division served in world war i, world war ii, and operation desert storm. Infantry division patches us army patches army unit patches and army regiment patches flying tigers surplus page 5. Us army infantry division patches, military gifts and.
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