GERMAN WW2 SHOULDER BOARDS BOTTLE GREEN WITH GREEN PIPING FOR ENLISTED MAN JAGER

This is a reproduction German Army shoulder boards in early war bottle green with grass green wool piping as worn by German Jager troops in WW2.

Prior to WW2 the German term Jäger came to represent light infantrymen whose civilian occupations (mostly hunters and foresters) made them well-suited to patrolling and skirmishing.

Instead of part of a large-scale military unit they were used on a more individual and independent basis.  Due to this Jäger was used to describe skirmishers, scouts, sharpshooters and runners.

Jäger is usually translated into English as:

• "rifleman" (in an infantry role) or "Rifles" (in regimental names); and
• "ranger"

In WW2 the new Wehrmacht revived the name.  Raised as "light infantry divisions" (leichte Infanterie-Divisionen) operating in rough terrain.

Their infantry regiments were called Jäger-Regimenter, and in 1942 the light infantry divisions were renamed Jäger divisions.