A Single Waffen-Ss Hauptcharführer Shoulder Board Hold USAAF Aircraft Warning System "AWS"

USAAF Aircraft Warning System "AWS" Observer Badge (silver gilt with white and blue enamels

Pre-1939 Infanterie-Regiment 19 of the 7

Following the Soviet advance into East Prussia in January 1945

"BITTERN")

A HJ (Hitlerjugend/Hitler Youth) “Leistungsabzeichen”

A Single Waffen-Ss Hauptcharführer Shoulder Board Hold USAAF Aircraft Warning System "AWS"Slip on style shoulder strap; constructed of black wool, with aluminum tresse wrapped in an U shape around the outer edge of the straps with an additional strip of tresse closing the loop; with pink (Rosa) Waffenfarbe piping along the straps; with two nonmatching silvered rank pips attached to the board, suggesting that this Scharfhrer started his career in the SS as a Unterscharfhrer; measuring 105 mm x 47 mm; better better than fine condition.