Staff Sargeant Hancoviz - Africa and Italian front
Article about: Hi folks, A friend of mine was cleaning out the basement and offered me an Ike jacket that belonged to his father. He has two but the one in question was damaged in a basement flood. He has
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This photos is unmarked but appears to show an AA gun. Perhaps someone can ID the cannon. I think it is a 90 mm M1. Thanks, NH
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Here is the Ike jacket. It has been damaged by water. I cannot make out the patches but perhaps a sharp eye out there can assist. Thanks for any input.
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Left arm patch looks like 7th Army. The other one is too obscured to make it out. Maybe 3rd Army but it doesn't seem to be round.
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The other patch is a Fifth Army patch. The two diagonal stripes represent six years service in the Army, with three years service over seas as indicated by the horizontal stripes.
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The two patches represent current, Seventh Army, and former, Fifth Army, units he had served in.
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carpediem
The two patches represent current, Seventh Army, and former, Fifth Army, units he had served in.
Thanks so much for the information. It all matches up. Mr. Hancoviz enlisted in 1939 and served six years. He was with an AA unit in Africa. I don't know his service record after that but I assume he participated in the 7th Army exploits in Sicily, France and Germany. I will continue uncovering more with his son. NH
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Here is a portrait of Sgt. Stanley Hancaviz taken at a photo studio in Tunis.
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