GERMAN WEHRMACHT HEER UNTEROFFIZIER SHOULDER BOARDS FOR JAGER TROOPS

WW2 German shoulder boards for Unteroffizier rank.  Made of field grey wool and aluminum-silver tresse.  Has green piping for Jagger Troops.

Check out our other shoulder boards of different ranks in all services with different piping Waffenfarbe colours in stock.

Prior to WW2 the German term Jäger came to represent light infantrymen whose civilian occupations (mostly hunters and foresters) made them well-suited to patrolling and skirmishing.

Instead of part of a large-scale military unit they were used on a more individual and independent basis.  Due to this Jäger was used to describe skirmishers, scouts, sharpshooters and runners.

Jäger is usually translated into English as:

• "rifleman" (in an infantry role) or "Rifles" (in regimental names); and
• "ranger"

In WW2 the new Wehrmacht revived the name.  Raised as "light infantry divisions" (leichte Infanterie-Divisionen) operating in rough terrain.

Their infantry regiments were called Jäger-Regimenter, and in 1942 the light infantry divisions were renamed Jäger divisions.