An American Vietnam War United States Army 1st Cavalry "Chicken Man" Patch
Red, white and black embroidered insignia, on a yellow cotton base, the centre illustrating a diving spread-winged rooster in red and white, its eye in black, holding white thunder bolts in both its claws, a black horse's head representative of the Cavalry at the upper right, the rooster backed by a black diagonal stripe, inscribed "CHICKEN MAN" across the top, beige pressed fabric backer, 85 mm x 122 mm, lightly soiled, near extremely fine.
Footnote: The history of the 1st Cavalry Division began in 1921, after the Army established a permanent cavalry division Table of Organization & Equipment on April 4, 1921. It authorized a Square Division organization of 7,463 Officers and Men. The division next saw combat during the Vietnam War. No longer a conventional infantry unit, the division had become an air assault division as the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), commonly referred to as the 1st Air Cavalry Division, using helicopters as troop carriers. The division's colors and unit designations were transferred to the 11th Air Assault Division (Test), then at Ft. Benning, Georgia, in July 1965, and began deploying to Camp Radcliffe, An Khe, Vietnam that month. The division, along with the 101st Airborne Division perfected new tactics and doctrine for helicopter-borne assaults over the next five years in Vietnam.

