506th Infantry Flashes and Ovals

Ovals are known as Regimental Background Trimming. The 506th Infantry
Regimental background trimmings were approved on May 23, 1968, and used
to be described on a US Army Institute of Heraldry web page "506th Infantry
Regiment Background Trimmings" (which no longer exists). According to The
Institute of Heraldry, a Flash was never approved for the 506th Infantry.

NOTE that the Flashes and Ovals shown below, which were worn by active-duty
Currahees in the 1970s, have discrepancies (in the order of the vertical stripes
and colors of the horizontal battalion bars) from what was authorized by TIOH,
whose files contain a 2-506th January 4, 1968 memo (Adobe PDF file)
which requests adding BLUE horizontal battalion bars to the Currahee ovals.

(L-R):

• Currahee Insignia Pin on a 1-506th beret flash (1978)
• Air Assault Badge on a 1-506th oval (1978)
• 2-506th beret flash (2nd BN was not activated during this era)

NOTE that red and blue horizontal bars indicating the battalion were
added to the ovals and flashes worn by Currahees during the late 1970's.