SS headquarters banner!!!

**martinsuper** · 02-03-2015, 04:51 PM

Scored a major haul of SS items from a captured SS headquarters.

The biggest item is the double sided SS banner.

It is signed by the US Soldiers who captured the headquarters, even the chaplain!

I was told it was a tank destroyer unit.

Need two "helps"!
1. How can I figure out the unit? Tons of names, ranks, and even home addresses.
2. Can I then figure out the SS headquarters?

I also got a lot of SS eagles, insignia, etc.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-03-2015 04:51 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**ddavies** · 02-03-2015, 04:57 PM

I wish i could help but i know little about flags.Can you post pics of the insignia.
Cheers
Dave.

**bigmacglenn** · 02-03-2015, 05:03 PM

Looks promising, sounds like quite a score...Looking forward to more photos, perhaps we can be of some assistance...
cheers, Glenn

**martinsuper** · 02-03-2015, 05:31 PM

Well I know the insignia is 100% right. I can post it when I get home. I was looking for assistance on how to research the flag so I can determine where it was flown and captured.

**Jerry B** · 02-03-2015, 05:43 PM

Try checking the phone book to see if the family still live at any of the addresses and if you get a match then ring them up and ask if they know with whom their relative served.

**bigmacglenn** · 02-03-2015, 05:55 PM

Check some of those signatures, oftentimes you'll see the unit listed somewhere among them...
cheers, Glenn

**Jerry B** · 02-03-2015, 07:08 PM

by bigmacglenn1966

Check some of those signatures, oftentimes you'll see the unit listed somewhere among them...
cheers, Glenn

Glenn, I used to have a TR banner with 72 signatures on it including many with full address, all ranks but not a single mention of the unit. He might be lucky but I assume he already checked before asking.

**bigmacglenn** · 02-03-2015, 07:14 PM

Feel free to delete my suggestion if you believe it was superfluous...
cheers, Glenn

**martinsuper** · 02-03-2015, 07:15 PM

This is true Jerry. But I am going to make a spreadsheet of all the info and see if I might have missed it. Seems to be about that many signatures too. Does anyone have a website to put names with a unit?

**Jerry B** · 02-03-2015, 07:34 PM

by bigmacglenn1966

Feel free to delete my suggestion if you believe it was superfluous...
cheers, Glenn

Not at all Glenn, but I made an assumption, it would have been great if the one I had was complete with just one mention of a unit, I looked and looked to no avail. It was quite frustrating and in the end as I lived in the UK and it did not seem possible to check US phone books so I parted with it.