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Tomislaw
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I am asking for help in identifying the shoulder patch.
Maybe someone is able help me.
The photo was taken in 1947 in Ingolstadt (Germany)
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Not sure about that patch? Here's an interesting link though..
http://bathead.com/insignia.html
Google Lens found it (although I had to hold my mouth just right):
*snip*
4092nd Labor Service Company (weiteres unbekannt) (Dank an Nicolas v. Möllendorf)
*snip*
https://www.usarmygermany.com/ext/LaborService/abzeichen.LS.htm
I took another look at this, and it isn't necessarily what I initially thought it was.
More about Ingolstadt:
https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/portals/76/publications/engineerpamphlets/ep_870-1-38.pdf
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/11/10/delta-township-man-recalls-world-war-ii-mp-duty/18828965/
More about the Labor Service companies:
https://www.armyheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/ref-bibs/subjects/Labor%20Service%20Troops.pdf
https://historyhub.history.gov/military-records/army-and-air-force-records/f/army-air-force-records-forum/19128/seeking-records-of-4088th-labor-service-company
It doesn't all quite add up for me yet, perhaps because it seems to be a pretty tall topic.
Interesting stuff kera..
dav2no1, The strange thing is the way Google Lens worked.
I first tripped on that sole twin image using Google Lens on my smart phone. When I tried to find it using Google Lens on my Windows device, at first it failed. It was only once I finally used Google Lens right from the front page of CW S&T, it finally worked. In other words, I didn't open the post.
Maybe it's not too strange, considering the way Google seems to vacuum the 'surface' of CW S&T.
As to the Labor Service companies, I should have paid proper attention to the fact the the twin image was found on a German website, but I got confused by the red herring of the opening remarks of the requestor at that history hub website.
His grandfather had been a POW of the Germans, and later became part of one of the Labor Services companies.
The 'ground troops' of the Labor Services companies seem to have been Europeans. Perhaps the requestor's grandfather, as a U.S. Army veteran, was in some kind of supervisory capacity.
That would makes sense in a Marshall Plan kind of way.