Colombian Infantry Patches 1970

Part 2

by Terry Hooker

Fig. 1
4th Brigade Medium blue field with outer edge white, Condor in red/grey with wing tips, tops of legs and neck surround in white, black high-lighting to wings and tail, red head and neck with beak and crown in white, black eye, red legs and claws standing on green grass and brown earth.

Fig. 2
Brigade "de Institutos Militares" Yellow/ gold star, middle stripe and outer edge, red top half with olive green bottom half.

Fig. 3
9th Brigade Light blue field with orange outer edge and lightning bolt, white/silver bayonet blade and cross hilt, black grip high-lighted in white/silver. Small incert is the revised badge 'for this Brigade; red outer edge, top half of background field light blue, bottom half pea green, indian face in white, brown necklace, top of hat is black with yellow and pea green stripes (green being the dominate colourl.

Fig. 4
7th Brigade Gold outer edge, background field; medium blue top half,, bottom half green, spear black, centaur in grey but high-lighting in both black and white.

Fig. 5
2nd Brigade White lighthouse with black high- ligthing and yellow beam, white stars, brown land, medium blue sea, dark blue sky, orange outer edge.

Fig. 6
3rd Brigade White field with yellow outer edge, green clover leaf with black edge.

Part 1


Back to Table of Contents -- El Dorado Vol V No. 4
Back to El Dorado List of Issues
Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List
© Copyright 1993 by The South and Central American Military Historians Society
This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web.
Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com