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Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands. A shoulder sleeve insignia often abbreviated ssi, is an embroidered patch worn on some uniforms of the united states army. An insignia patch with the inscription us army is located above the left breast pocket. The first patches were often primitive but by world war ii, the manufacture was regulated. This is the us army section of flying tiger antiques. Ninetyone divisions saw action during world war ii.
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