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Postby tamccoy357 » Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:58 pm

Can anyone help me, I am a retired 3rd generation U.S Paratrooper working on a museum about WW2 Paratroopers. While in Germany I was given a unit flag and need help trying to indentify, can anyone help me
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Re: unit flag

Postby ealdwita » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:39 pm

It's obviously a Fallschirmjaeger pennant, but I can't narrow it down, and I'm not sure it's a unit flag. The Fallschirmjaegers were known collectively as 'The Green Devils' so perhaps the devil on a pitchfork represents that. I'm wondering if it's only semi-official.
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