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The distinctive unit insignia of the regiment is an "Old Gray Bonnet" proper, and is one of the few DUIs in the U.S. Army designed to be manufactured and worn in pairs (left and right). The insignia is a blue shield with a gray saltire cross and a prickly pear and fleur-de-lis, and a boar's Head with an oak branch in its mouth on top.
80th Division ("Blue Ridge Division") 5 August 1917 23 July 1917 Brig. Gen. Herman Hall Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite Brig. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson Brig. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis Jr. Somme Offensive Meuse–Argonne: 81st Division ("Wildcat Division") 5 August 1917 2 November 1918
The 80th Training Command (The Army School System – TASS) is a formation of the United States Army Reserve. The unit was first organized in August 1917 and activated the following September during World War I as the 80th Division. During World War II, the Division was redesignated on 1 August 1942, as the 80th Infantry Division.
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The 26th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.Its nickname is "Blue Spaders", taken from German soldiers in World War I who saw the spade-like device on the regiment's distinctive unit insignia and called the soldiers “Blauerspadern”.
It was a combined result of disparaging remarks made by Army regulars about the National Guard division and the appearance of the unit shoulder sleeve insignia. The California Guardsmen took to their new nickname with a soldier's sense of humor , and turned it into a rallying symbol (sometimes used for the 9th Infantry Division, due to the ...