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Rank chevrons: (when worn in the early, upper-sleeve position) are to be placed approx 16cm. between elbow and shoulder (on the left sleeve) centered.

Heer (Army) Sleeve Insignia

Last Updated: July 10, 2008


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Rank Insignia
Note: German rank pips and chevrons were not worn in pairs.
One pip or chevron was worn on the left sleeve.

Oberschütze (Private 1st Class) Sleeve Pips:  $10.00 each

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Pre/early-war
Bottle-green
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Mid-war
Field-gray

Sleeve Chevrons:  $10.00 each

Gefreiter:


Early-war silver on bottle green

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Mid-war
Silver on field-gray

Late-war
subdued
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Tropical
Obergefreiter:


Early-war silver on bottle green

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Early/mid-war
Silver on
field-gray

Late-war
subdued
sleeve_heerOgefchev_trop.jpg (27498 bytes)
Tropical

Jäger Sleeve Badges: $10.00 each
Worn on the right sleeve.

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Jäger
(Light infantry)
Sold Out
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Skijäger
(Ski troops)

Gebirgsjäger
(Mountain Troops)
Field gray
embroidered only.

Foreign Volunteer Armshields
$10.00 each
Machine-embroidered National armshields for the international volunteers in the Heer.  Below is a list of the pertinent ones to the Army; more can be found on the Waffen-SS Insignia page.
These are worn on the lower right, lower left, upper right or lower right sleeve depending on the unit and time frame. You will have to research the unit that interests you and decide for yourself wear you wish to wear it.

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Azerbaidjan
volshield_croatian1st.jpg (20880 bytes)
Croatia
(1st pattern)
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Croatia
(2nd pattern)
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Don Cossacks
(1st pattern)
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Don Cossacks
(2nd pattern)
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Flanders
(1st pattern)

France
France

  Hungary
Hungary
volshield_arabien.jpg (15791 bytes)
Free Arabia
Freies Indien
Free India
Latvia, early pattern
Latvia
volshield_ncaucasian.jpg (20510 bytes)
White Caucuses
volshield_poa.jpg (20426 bytes)
Russian Army
of Liberation

volshield_spain.jpg (21005 bytes)
Spain
Sold Out

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Terek Cossacks
Walloon
Walloon
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Turkistan
(2nd pattern)
volshield_turkistan3rd.jpg (20843 bytes)
Turkistan
(3rd pattern)
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Ukraine
   

 

 

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