German Army Artillery Shoulder Board

Nice second pattern, green cloth construction, slip on shoulder straps with bright silver diamond patterned NCO tress to all the outside edges and red rayon waffenfarbe piping. Measures 105mm long. The straps is missing, likely cut away when removing from tunic.

The German Army (German: Heer; lit. ’army’) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. During World War II, a total of about 13.6 million volunteers and conscripts served in the German Army.