Division’s blue-gray patch might get the ax
Jonathan M. Pitts - Yesterday 7:49 PM
BALTIMORE —Steve Melnikoff wore the patch during the D-Day invasion of Europe 78 years ago as he crouched in a tank landing ship off Omaha Beach, German artillery shells screaming over his head.
He wore it the next day, too, as his unit in the 29th Infantry Division secured a position behind enemy lines under heavy fire, and for another 11 months amid some of the bloodiest fighting in history.
When the occasion arises, Melnikoff, 102, still sports the blue-and-gray, yin-yang-style patch that the 29th made famous. And it’s on generous display in his home in Cockeysville, Md. But he knows it could soon end up on history’s proverbial ash heap, and he likes the idea about as much as he did the German soldiers he fought in World War II.
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