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Unread 02-11-2010, 05:03 PM   #17
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The 45th. Infantry division wore this patch prior to WW2, as their lineage was the Southwest, they chose a Navajo good luck symbol, the swastika. They later renamed themselves the Thunderbird Division, to continue the navajo simbolism without the onus of the cross the nazis corrupted.....
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