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Parachute Infantry Regiment.
4th Infantry Regiment Crossed Rifles were an insignia for the INFANTRY, including Airborne Infantry. The enlisted men wore a disc with crossed rifles, and Officers were only crossed rifles. Some units would wear the crossed rifles with letters or numbers. Some would have a Letter for the Company and a number for the Regiment. The Number was the identity of the Regiment, because the identity of the DIvision was a cloth patch worn on the LEFT sleeve. For Engineer battalions, the symbol was a castle and the number identified the number of the engineer battalion.
Q: What could the d in squad stand for?Question is not clear. Do you mean was there a "Squad D"?AnswerAn US Infantry Regiment was divided into 3 battalions, each containing 4 Companies. These 12 companies were labeled by Letters: Company A, Company B...Company D was the fourth company and would be in the 1st Battalion. The 4th company of each battalion was a Heavy Weapons Company, meaning they were armed not with rifles & light machine guns BUT with mortars, and heavy .50 caliber machine guns.An infantry company is divided into Platoons and these were divided into Squads. There was no such thing as a "Squad D".
The White Spade stood for the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. A tactical marking to assist in the assembly of troops on the D.Z. Each unit in the 101st Airborne Division had a tactical marking on the side of it's helmet. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com This was the symbol for the 506th PIR-parachute infantry Regiment.
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Refused to allow a British regiment through to destroy a weapons cache in Concord.
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