Soviet WW2 Soviet Generals Insignia

[Guest Rick Research]

Front and back sides of service uniform boards.

First up, a rather unusual Air Force Major General, with the branch color only as piping rather than full underlay. Note the "11 Republics" (wreath scrolls 5 left, 1 bottom, 35 right):

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[Guest Rick Research]

Just to confuse everything, technical branch Generals (signals, engineers, etc) at lower levels did not display any specific branch insignia...

and for "reasons" one can only wonder at, contrary to the service branch colors of lower officers, were assigned the underlay color used by INFANTRY officers!

Here is a Major General of a technical branch:

[Guest Rick Research]

A Major General of artillery. The branch device could have been bullion, but for this period mainly seem to have been metal. Branch devices and stars should be in "opposite" colors to the metallic board braid, but weak finishes on Soviet branch insignia often evaporate off to the base metal.

[Guest Rick Research]

Can't show the back of this since these are on a tunic and I never remove the "shoelace" ties for the buttons.

A Major General of State Security-- the blueberry blue visible as edges on this white summer tunic have turned a sort of charcoal gray color, but remain deep blue and unfaded underneath.

[Guest Rick Research]

Another one on a tunic. A civil police ("Militia") Major General ("Commissar Third Rank") of the shortlived 1943-47 pattern.

For these five years, civil police wore navy blue uniforms with air force blue (robin's egg/turquoise) piping.

Civil police generals wore silver braid rather than gold-- rather like military officials' "reversed colors."

[Gerd Becker]

How hard are REAL Generals-shoulderboards to find these days and how much do they go for?

Anyone has some fake Generals boards to compare real boards to repros?

Gerd

[Guest Rick Research]

Oddly enough, generals were always easier to come by in "the good old days" than officers. After all, a generic Major General is... a generic Major General...

but try finding a major or a Lieutenant Colonel or any specific rank of some branch like electrical-engineering or whatever.

The only fake general boards I have seen are modern M1969+ types with the slanted upper "4th side" hacked off to make a "6 sided" board-- but those are immediately obvious since they have gold stars on gold boards.

[Paul R]

Very nice Rick!! How many different colors did these come in?

[Gerd Becker]

I really love the Artillery boards, but i guess, they are hard to find, as yours are the only one, i have seen so far.

You find the later pattern all the time on ebay, but you never see wartime boards anymore. Even the top online dealer can?t offer them anymore. Or i don?t know, where exactly to look for them. Anyone has a link or two?

[NavyFCO]

I really love the Artillery boards, but i guess, they are hard to find, as yours are the only one, i have seen so far.

You find the later pattern all the time on ebay, but you never see wartime boards anymore. Even the top online dealer can?t offer them anymore. Or i don?t know, where exactly to look for them. Anyone has a link or two?

Try www.sovietgenerals.com

Dave

[Gerd Becker]

Try www.sovietgenerals.com

Dave

He has some great stuff, but no boards.

M1940 Uniform of Marshal of the USSR Timoshenko - $POR What might that one cost?

[order_of_victory]

Try www.sovietgenerals.com

Dave

Wow never seen that website before, thanks Dave

Order of Victory

[Sergey]

Fine collection. I in delight .