WW2 USA 1st Armoured Corps Decal

An original helmet / hemet liner decal for the US 1st Armoured Corps. Without backing paper it measures 7cm - there is visible cracking to the ink due to age.The Corps landed as part of Operation Torch (Morocco) in Nov 1942 commanded by Major General George S. Patton being the first all-American force to enter the war against the Germans. Armored Corps was redesignated as the Seventh Army on 10 July 1943 while at sea en route to the Allied invasion of Sicily as the spearhead of Operation Husky.