08-20-2003, 03:34 PM
Shawn is correct, I have never seen unit insignia ( official anyway) from WWII. There may have been a few in the red air force, but this was few and far between. The soviets were not in the habit of unit insignia.
Here is a photo of a typical late war unit flag, for the 180th "Kievskaya" Rifle Division. The flag would not really differ for, say, the 204th artillery division; just the letters and numbers really.
That does not mean that soviet unit flags are not complex, they are, but not per unit. During the russian civil war there were unique flags per unit, but during the war the flags were based on status and year made, not unit.
DougD
Here is a photo of a typical late war unit flag, for the 180th "Kievskaya" Rifle Division. The flag would not really differ for, say, the 204th artillery division; just the letters and numbers really.
That does not mean that soviet unit flags are not complex, they are, but not per unit. During the russian civil war there were unique flags per unit, but during the war the flags were based on status and year made, not unit.
DougD
