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The Cap Piece on the Berets' of the British looks the same as in the Wil


On the front of the berets of the british was a silver cap piece that looked like the same cap piece on the berets in the movie "The Wild Geese". What was that?

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It's the cap badge of the British Army's Parachute Regiment. Several battalions of British paratroopers were deployed to Palestine from 1945 to 1948. The emblem appears in THE WILD GEESE because some of the mercenaries had been British paras and wore their service covers as a badge of pride and experience.

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