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A friend dropped by with some uniforms he picked up today and wanted to see if I'd do some trading. The uniform with this tab is a DSA-100-436, buttons changed to the silver ones. I didn't know what to think about it but I liked the tab. Anyhow I want to add a picture of the tab to the Patch Tab thread started by 36-tex if it's not a Prince fashion piece or something :D What do you all think about the tab?

 

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The longer we were on occupation duty, the quality of the quality of became poorer. This one is an example of a later made tab, but am not sure if it really is a purple color or not. If it is indeed purple, it's pretty weird.

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Yeah, that's a poor job for sure! I don't know if you can see it in the pics but there's at least one piece of loose green thread on the tab (bottom right). Maybe it was removed once then sewn (LOL) back on.

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From the inside of the sleeve, doesn't look like it was machine sewn on before. If you can go by that.

 

It may look blue near the back but with a flashlight and magnifying glass it looks dark purple.

 

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The Meatcan

Interesting. When were these tabs used? I ask as my dad was in Seventh Army in Germany in the early 50s but never had this tab.

Terry

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These Germany tabs exist in a wide variety of colors and styles. I believe most were sewn onto "going home" uniforms by GIs when they were leaving Germany. It wouldn't make much sense to show everyone else on your Kaserne that you were serving in Germany ("no s**t, aren't we all?"). However it would make sense to want to show everyone else you crossed paths with on your way back to your moms house in the states that you had been serving along the Iron Curtin.

 

All are unauthorized and most are not for a specific unit.

 

They seem to have been fashionable in the mid to late 1950's, but examples exist for a variety of locations dating back to the immediate post WWII period.

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Stationed in Germany 1960-63. These tabs still existed, blue with white trim, but totally unauthorized for wear. More of a souvenir, take home item as mentioned above..

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