badge, rank, German, shoulder strap, Jäger Troops, Sturmabteilung, SA
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Physical description
Horizontal rectangular green cloth shoulder strap with a button hole at the rounded off end. The face of the strap consists of eight rows of twisted copper-brown braided thread with silver thread chevrons. On the reverse is the RZM paper label with no. 180292
This unpleasant-looking character is called the Squander Bug, and it was created during the Second World War by artist Phillip Boydell, an employee of the National Savings Committee. The cartoon bug appeared in press adverts and poster campaigns as a menace who encouraged shoppers to waste money rather than buy war savings certificates.
American troops and locals at the Dove Inn, Burton Bradstock, in Dorset, 1944.
In 1942, the first of over 1.5 million American servicemen arrived on British shores in preparation for the Allied offensives against Germany during the Second World War. That year, the United States' War Department published Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain to help soldiers, sailors and airmen – many of whom had never travelled abroad before – adjust to life in a new country.
