Shoulder Board letter «D»

[ROMMEL-rus]

Near Stalingrad, I dug up the letter D from the shoulder strap. Tell me what it is

[OSS]

Typically these devices are stamped and therefore hollow. One would think these "Ds" would be from the regiment" Deutschland" though yours looks more squarish than I remember.

[ROMMEL-rus]

Thanks, are there any other opinions?

[pauke]

Being a casting with a pin on the back and of a strange shape it does not even look like a normal military insignia. It might be useful to know which unit(s) were in the location where you found this.

[Johnny R]

That is odd, IMO it is not for a shoulder board. It may actually be older than WWII era.

[Johnny R]

I just remembered seeing things like this as monograms on leather map and attache cases etc.