80th Infantry Division cut edge

Shoulder badge, cut edge model, original WWII, of the 80th Infantry Division. 

It was first activated in September 1917, a few months after the United States' decision to enter World War I. She arrived in Europe in June 1918 to take part in the final stages of the war. It took part in the second battle of the Somme then in the final offensive known as Meuse-Argonne which led to the defeat of Germany and the armistice of November 11, 1918. The unit earned its motto: Only Moves Forward (always forward). She was demobilized in May 1919. She reappeared in 1942, in the context of the Second World War. She landed on Utah Beach on August 5, 1944 to take part in the Battle of Normandy within the 3rd Army, notably seizing Argentan on August 20 and participating in the formation of the Falaise pocket. Subsequently, it pursued the retreating German troops across France, liberating Pont-à-Mousson, and had to stop at the end of September on the banks of the Seille due to lack of fuel. On November 8, it went on the offensive again and had to enter German soil. It advanced to within eight kilometers of Saarbrücken where it was relieved by the 6th Armored Division on December 7. It was then engaged in the Battle of the Bulge, fighting in Luxembourg, near Bastogne where the men of the 101st Airborne Division were surrounded. On December 28, she managed to break the encirclement to rescue the paratroopers. On February 7, 1945, the unit returned to the attack and crossed the Our then the Sauer, piercing the Siegfried Line then pursuing the enemy towards Kaiserslautern which it captured on March 20, before crossing the Rhine on the 27th and March 28. The final weeks of the war then saw an increasingly easy penetration into the heart of Germany, taking Erfurt on April 12 then Weimar, Jena and Gera two days later. It was then relieved and directed to Nuremberg for an occupation mission then to Regensburg at the end of April. She continued to fight until the final moments of the war in Czechoslovakia, liberating the Ebensee concentration camp on May 6, 1945.