Seven Steps to Hell patch...

Billy Pardue · Mar 14, 2018

dennisowen said: ↑

Lorrel, I came across this site accidentally when searching for 7th US Army. I wore a patch like this in 1967-68, when I was in the US Army. The patch did not include the words, just the triangle. I was stationed in Heidelberg, Germany, at the HQ, US Army Europe. As I understood it at the time, the 7th Army had been deactivated after WWII. At the time I was at the HQ, about half of the troops were designated as 7th Army and the other half were designated US Army Europe (USAREUR). We all worked together and our different designations meant little until we had alerts. The idea was that if there was an emergency, the 7th Army could be activated quickly. So those of us with 7th Army patches were subject to being alerted (usually in the middle of the night) and we had to get our field gear and rifles and load up on trucks, to be taken to some remote location out in the boondocks. Those with USAREUR patches simply went downstairs, turned in their alert cards, then went back to bed. This link shows exactly what the two patches looked like when I was in the Army ... United States Army Europe (USAREUR) / 7th Army

Dennis
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My great uncle served then.his name was W. M. PARDUE I have his uniform that he left to my grandfather. He died in a car wreck in 69 I believe

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