French Foreign Legion 76th Engineer Battalion 3rd Company pocket badge
Price:
500 - 800 $
3e Compagnie de 76e Bataillon de Genie.
3rd Company of the 76th Engineer battalion badge. The company was created on the 1st July 1951 in Saigon. The company created and helped maintain the airfields in Laos, Vientiane and Dien Bien Phu. On the 1st October the company and it is becomes a mixed Laotian engineer unit and the legionnaires are slowly transferred to other units.
The badge was locally made in Indochina and rare.
badge courtesy of Jean-Yves Thiery
Thanks to Andy Mitchell for the information.
- Category Engineering сorps
- Wearing breast badge
- stripes, home, eagle, number, text, hand grenade, cuirass Picture components
- Caption 16/3 genie-air
- Shape shield
- Material
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- Period 1951 -