WWII Allied Forces Airborne Training Centre - Sicily

Here is an original Allied Forces Airborne training Centre Sicily jacket patch. Fully embroidered on wool with a cheese cloth back. Measures 4”

The Fifth Army Airborne Training Center was established in 1943 at Les Angades Aerodrome near Oujda, Morocco. Employing a training program modeled on that of the Parachute School at Ft. Benning, the Training Center’s mission was to provide parachute training in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO). In addition to training replacements for American airborne units, the facility provided training for the OSS and for French airborne units based in the MTO.

As the Germans were pushed north, out of Africa and into Italy, the Training Center relocated: In January 1944 to Trapani, Sicily, where it became Camp Kurtz

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