Original Items: Only One Set Available. This is a set of "Uniform Cut Off" insignia from a German WWII Heer Army 139th Jäger Regiment Enlisted man, consisting of a right collar litzen, or collar tab, and a schulterklapp (shoulder strap). These look to have been cut off from a Drilljacke (drill jacket) Field tunic, and the litzen was cut off with a piece of the collar, while the shoulder strap had the stitching undone.

The insignia are both of the 1938 Pattern, with the Litzen collar tab BeVo embroidered using gray and blue green threading. It does not have Corps Color stripes, as in 1938 they were removed from EM/NCO collar insignia to save time.

The shoulder strap has a flaschengrün (dark bottle-green) "badge cloth" top layer, changed to feldgrau in 1940, and has hellgrün (light green) piping around the edge, the Corps Color (Waffenfarbe) for Gebirgsjäger (mountain troops), Skijäger (ski troops), and Jäger (light infantry troops). It has the number 139 chain stitched on the top, indicating issue most likely to the 139th Jäger Regiment.

A lovely set of Jäger enlisted uniform cut off insignia, ready to add to your collection!

German Jäger Units -
Jäger (hunter) is a German military term referring to specific light infantry units. In German-speaking states during the early modern era, the term Jäger came to denote light infantrymen whose civilian occupations (mostly hunters and foresters) made them well-suited to patrolling and skirmishing, on an individual and independent basis, rather than as part of a large-scale military unit or traditional line infantry. As a consequence, Jäger was used to describe skirmishers, scouts, sharpshooters and runners.

The German Empire had various different Jäger units, which were disbanded at the conclusion of WWI. The Reichswehr of Weimar Germany did keep their traditions somewhat intact, and during the NSDAP led rearmament preceding WWII, various different Jäger units were reformed, the most famous of which were the Heer Gebirgsjäger Mountain Troopers and Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger paratroopers. Later in the war, Skijäger Ski Troopers and Jäger Infantry units were raised, as well as some smaller units with more specific purposes, such as "Tank Hunters".

Gebirgsjäger material is among the most popular of all German WWII items. They were the light infantry part of the alpine or mountain troops (Gebirgstruppe) of Germany and Austria. The word Jäger (meaning "hunter" or "huntsman") is a characteristic term used for light-infantry or light-infantryman in German-speaking military context.

The mountain infantry of Austria have their roots in the three Landesschützen regiments of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The mountain infantry of Germany carry on certain traditions of the Alpenkorps (Alpine corps) of World War I. Both countries' mountain infantry share the Edelweiß insignia. It was established in 1907 as a symbol of the Austro-Hungarian Landesschützen regiments by Emperor Franz Joseph I. These troops wore their edelweiss on the collar of their uniforms. When the Alpenkorps came to aid the Landesschützen in defending Austria-Hungary's southern frontier against the Italian attack in May 1915, the grateful Landesschützen honored the men of the Alpenkorps by awarding them their own insignia: the edelweiss. Together with the Fallschirmjäger (Paratroopers) they are perceived as the elite infantry units of the German Army.