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Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of Divisions

U.S. Army

Second World War

Part Four: Armored and Cavalry

Armored Divisions

Third Armored Division Shoulder Sleeve Insignia
The various armored divisions all have a similar design except that their individual unit number appears in the place of the third's three. The following armored divisions were activated during the Second World War. There was also a basic armored force shoulder sleeve insignia lacked any unit designation.

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Unit	Year Activated	Service	Wedsite	Unit	Year Activated	Service	Website
First	1940	N. Africa, Italy	Website	Ninth	1942	E.T.O.
Second	1940	N. Africa, Sicily, E.T.O.	Website	Tenth	1942	E.T.O.
Third	1941	E.T.O.	Website 1 Website 2	11^th	1942	E.T.O.	Website
Fourth	1941	E.T.O.	Website	12^th	1942	E.T.O.	Website
Fifth	1941	E.T.O.		13^th	1942	E.T.O.
Sixth	1942	E.T.O.	Website	14^th	1942	E.T.O.
Seventh	1942	E.T.O.	Website	16^th	1943	E.T.O.
Eighth	1942	E.T.O.		20^th	1943	E.T.O.	Web Site

Cavalry Divisions

"We must not be misled....to assume that the untried machine can displace the proved and tried horse."
(Major General John K. Herr, Chief of Cavalry 1938)

On the eve of World War Two a number of National Guard and inactive Regular Army Cavalry divisions existed on paper. The success of the German armored divisions and the perceived failure of American cavalry during the Louisiana Maneuvers caused the Army to abandon the horse cavalry. Two dismounted cavalry divisions were active during World War Two.


1^st 1922	2^nd 1928
Pacific	North Africa
Website Website

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