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Antiaircraft Artillery |
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Armored Command |
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Army Air Forces |
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Artillery, except Antiaircraft and Coast Artillery |
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Cavalry, Horse |
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Cavalry, Mechanized |
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Chemical Warfare Service |
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Coast Artillery |
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Engineers |
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Infantry |
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Medical Corps |
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Ordnance Department |
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Quartermaster Corps |
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Signal Corps |
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Tank Destroyer |
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Transportation Corps |
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Veterinary Corps |
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Airborne units are designated by combining a gull symbol with the arm or service symbol: | |||||||||||
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Airborne Artillery |
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Airborne Infantry |
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| The following symbols placed either in boundary lines or above the rectangle, triangle, or circle inclosing the identifying arm or service symbol indicate the size of military organization: | |||||||||||
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Squad |
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Section |
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Platoon |
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Company, troop, battery, Air Force flight |
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Battalion, cavalry squadron, or Air Force squadron |
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Regiment or group; combat team (with abbreviation CT following identifying numeral) |
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Brigade, Combat Command of Armored Division, or Air Force Wing |
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Division or Command of an Air Force |
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Corps or Air Force |
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Army |
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Group of Armies |
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| The letter or number to the left of the symbol indicates the unit designation; that to the right, the designation of the parent unit to which it belongs. Letters or numbers above or below boundary lines designate the units separated by the lines: | |||||||||||
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Company A, 137th Infantry |
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8th Field Artillery Battalion |
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Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division |
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Observation Post, 23d Infantry |
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Command Post, 5th Infantry Division |
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Boundary between 137th and 138th Infantry |
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Machine gun |
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Gun |
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Gun battery |
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Howitzer or Mortar |
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Tank |
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Self-propelled gun |
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