GERMAN WEHRMACHT HEER NCO UNTERFELDWEBEL SHOULDER BOARDS FOR PANZER

WW2 German shoulder boards for NCO Unterfeldwebel rank.  Made of field grey wool and aluminum-silver tresse.  Has pink piping for Panzer.  Unterfeldwebel ( 'Junior Sergeant') was a rank of the Wehrmacht, from 1935 until 1945.

Unterfeldwebel NCO shoulder boards were introduced in 1938. They indicated the rank and service branch of the wearer.

Has button hole for uniform attachment and black wool strap

The rank tresse is the early shiny silver ones. 

Rank tresse was sewn onto the edges of the shoulder boards.  The early war tresse was originally shiny silver aluminum probably due to the ease of seeing this bright silver tresse the Germans quickly introduced the subdued tresse instead.   

After 1940 both silver and the subdued tresse was worn on the shoulder boards.

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

Panzer divisions were an important function of the German success in WW2 especially during the early years with the “Blitzkrieg Operations.
Later the Waffen-SS formed its own panzer divisions, and the Luftwaffe fielded an elite panzer division: the Hermann Göring Division.

A Panzer division had tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft and other support elements.

By mid-war even though German tanks we considered technically superior than Allied tanks, shortages for the Germans reduced the readiness and effectiveness of the German Panzer Divisions. Along with the Allies increased knowledge of Armoured warfare techniques through time also contributed to the reduction in the effectiveness of the Panzer Divisions in later WW2.