Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?

A well deserved medal.So many service members have performed duties that are never to be spoken about.Where there should be medals,none will ever show up.Almost every platoon that served in a combat area,has some that went beyond what was expected of them. The glider pilots,being mostly volunteers are of that special breed. A big salute to all who took a chance.

I think they had them in WWll

I have only seen 1 worn. In the mid 1980's I was at the VA Hospital in Seattle and a WWII Vet that worked there as a volunteer wore it. Don't know when they stopped issuing it but, the badge was
formally rescinded 3 May 1961. Those that earned it could continue to wear it.

Seems like a great day to answer this; my neighbor George Kross was a WWII veteran. When he found out that I would be doing ROTC in college, he started talking to me about his own time in the service. He also had his old uniform on a tailor's dummy in his basement and offered to show it to me. When I was looking it over, I noticed what looked like a parachute badge but instead of a parachute, it had what looked like a head on view of a plane. I asked him what it was and he told me it was a Glider Badge. My response was to tell him he must've been crazy and he couldn't argue the point. He told me a good bit about his time serving in the 101st and gliding into Normandy, Market Garden, etc. Truly a great man!

No,but it was issued to glider pilots of WW2

My Dad went thru the last class in 49 and was assigned to C/504. I checked his photo albums and no a single guy was wearing it in any photos. It wasn’t generally accepted practice to wear it in the Parachute units.

I’d suggest that there’s been 50 years or more since combat gliders were used. Basically, since helicopters replaced them.

Glider patch was worn on soldiers garrison cap to symbolize the Airborne status while in dress uniform. This patch went out when the Dress Greens went. Headgear was replaced by the berets.

We had a Master Sergeant in 101st in 1978 , he was pretty old then.

I grew up next door to a 17th Airborne Division (194th Glider Infantry Regiment) Veteran of WW2. He was in Operation "Varsity Plunder", the assault across the Rhine and went in near the town of Wessel, Germany, by glider. I don't know if he had glider wings or not but he saw his share of combat. Sadly, he's no longer with us.