Original German Pre WWII USGI Bring Back Set - State Veteran's Association Armband and Matched Artillery M36 Enlisted Shoulderboards Ordnance and operated by the SS

and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1937

but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers clutching the wall

DUNCANCAPT BIXBY

showing the maker as:

There is a faint "boxed" cartouche over the saddle ring bar

Original German Pre WWII USGI Bring Back Set - State Veteran's Association Armband and Matched Artillery M36 Enlisted Shoulderboards Ordnance and operated by the SSOriginal Items: Only One Set Available. This is a very nice German Pre WWII Veteran's Association Armband along with a matched set of Artillery Enlisted M36 shoulderboards, which were brought back from the European theater by a USGI after the war was concluded. Many solders traded these on the way back, and would end up with a pocket full of various different collectible items, and this set represents the typical "haul" one might have come back with.