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Fahnrichschuler 2 Studienjahr Infantry. This is the only pair I have, other branches are on my want list.

Army General's Hat Badge, collar tabs, and shoulder boards for Generalmajor and Armeegeneral.

Border Guard Cap Insignia, collar tabs and Generalleutnant board.

Field/Subdued Soldat/Matrose, Gefreiter/Obermatrose, Unteroffizer/Maat. I have yet to get the NCO ranks, they are on my want list.

Had to take a break to carve pumpkins. Here are some more...

Very nice Kevin. How do you know they are navy? Thanks for posting them.

Which boards? Field Subdued? They were worn by all branches of the East German armed forces.

Field/Subdued Offizierschuler 1-4 Studienjahr

Reverse - Note that the older one on the right is backed in a felt like material.

Field/Subdued Fahnrich to Stabsfahnrich

Field/Subdued Underleutnant to Hauptmann/Kapitanleutnant

Field/Subdued for all NVA branches - Major/Korvettenkapitan to Oberst/Kapitan zur See

I guess Paul and I hit the send button at about the same time!

Now as most of the NVA could have passed for TR, I am going to assume that waffenfarbe stayed the same, if I am wrong could someone set me staight. So either a pair of Jgr or PzGdr for a Unterfeldwebel

Laurence - Here are some of the East German NVA branch colors off the top of my head. Kevin

Green - Border Guard

White - Infantry

Pink - Armor

Black - Engineers

Hunter Green - Rear Services

Gray - Air Defense

Light Blue - Air Force

Dark Blue - Navy

Red - Artillery

Blood Red - Stazi

Yellow - Signal

Orange - Para

Olive Green - Construction Soldiers

Paul/Laurence - Thanks much for the + response. If I get time tonight I'll post a few more. Kevin

Ok, Here is the thread I started on DDR SBs: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3130&hl= Kevin

That's all I have scanned. I have much more and will scan an post if there is any interest in this thread. Kevin

Bausoldat (Construction Soldier) color and subdued boards. I'm still looking for the elusive color board with the metal shovel.

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Air Force Stabsfahnrich, note the mix of old an new form stars which are slightly different in size.

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Grenztruppen Major & Oberstleutnant. Note that the Major is the older form and the Oberstleutnant has two wider silver braids. The size of the rank stars changed over time, although the difference is hard to see unless you put the stars side by side.

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Officer School Signal 3nd & 4th Years (Yellow) and Stasi 6th Year (Blood Red) note metal and woven variations. Some say that for most branches outside Medical & Legal (Rear Services) only had 4 year boards. And that 5th & 6th year boards were pumped out from 89-91 for collectors.

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Soldat to Unteroffizer (also includes Unteroffizerschuler, black band)

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Unterfeldwebel to Stabsfeldwebel

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Fahnrich to Stabsoberfahnrich

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Underleutnant to Hauptmann/Kapitanleutnant

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Here are some black background boards which I believe the officer boards could be used either by Engineers or Volksmarine. I picked them all up before the fall of the wall. Here is a set from Major/Korvettenkapitan to Oberst/Kapitan zur See. I've shown the back of the Oberst/Kapitan zur See SB looks more like TR shoulder boards. All of these SBs are earlier as the each of the four silver braids are equal. In later DDR boards the the braids are not all equal.