Startling US Insignia

[Hussar100]

I was looking for something else when I came upon this insignia for the 45th US Inf Div which was adopted to pay tribute to the Native American population. For a while I was thinking along the lines that it was still in use today but when I checked out their Wikipedia entry I was pleased to see they dropped it in 1939 because of the rise of Nazism in Europe.

It just goes to show how innocent this symbol was before the Nazis adopted it and cursed its use for ever. As many of us probably know it was in common use by the Roman and the Moguls and was very popular in India as a religious symbol.

Me reproducing it here isn't intended to offend anyone so please don't take umbrage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U...V_Swastika.svg

[ebro]

Was that not the logo used by the National Savings in Britain pre and during WW1?
Eddie

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by ebro

Was that not the logo not used by the National Savings in Britain pre and during WW1?
Eddie

I didn't know that but on checking your info found out you are totally correct - how interesting.

[pinfrin]

Another cool Germane badge idea

[Old Smelly]

Still used in many places. See here: http://reclaimtheswastika.com
Lee

[Old Smelly]

Roman mozaic unearthed near Keynsham and being restored for exhibition

[Old Smelly]

That symbol is still around, mainly on architecture but also on a ladies coat in Debenhams!

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by Old Smelly

Still used in many places. See here: http://reclaimtheswastika.com
Lee

It's certainly still used in Asia where it never fell out of fashion and the Nazis never prevailed. Here in Europe it's a different matter. As long as the generations who were born not long after the war survive it's always going to be a foreboding symbol of evil associated with the Nazis. It's use is banned in Germany under federal law.

So unfortunately I can't see any resurgence in use here, unless it's by Neo Nazi groups.

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by pinfrin

Another cool Germane badge idea

Sorry but I'm not seeing any relevance. Enlighten me please?

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by Old Smelly

That symbol is still around, mainly on architecture but also on a ladies coat in Debenhams!

Any comment I made regarding this would be useless.

[pinfrin]

Maltese Cross firmly on Crescent [16 Punjab Regt; British Colonial. ~1930 Badge]
Maltese Cross firmly thru Crescent* [Ruppichteroth, 30 km from Bonn, Germany]

* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...teroth_COA.svg

[BROOKIES]

Here's on in use on a WWI silk card for the Glamorgan Yeomanry, used as a good luck symbol.

Also isn't the TR one rotated by 45 degrees.

Jonathan

img106.jpg

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by pinfrin

Maltese Cross firmly on Crescent [16 Punjab Regt; British Colonial. ~1930 Badge]
Maltese Cross firmly thru Crescent* [Ruppichteroth, 30 km from Bonn, Germany]

* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...teroth_COA.svg

Sorry but this symbol isn't familiar to me. Perhaps it is to others?

[Phil2M]

Boy Scouts used the swastika prior to the rise of the Nazis in Germany.

[Mike Jackson]

From a 1980 reprint of material published in the Infantry Journal in 1945/1946 and written by CWO EJ Kahn Jr and TSgt Henry McLemore. Para 2 refers.
45 US Inf Div.jpg