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Posted by Sian Rose (U14358045) on Saturday, 5th June 2010
I was just wondering if anyone knows if they used to put orange tags on the shoulders of dead bodies before they were rmoved from the battlefield. I was reading a book where it described walking through an old minefield just after WW2 and seeing another company walking towards them with orange flashed on their shoulders but the inference is these are ghosts. Can anyone help?
If they did it is news to me.
I haven't read anything about it, so, poetic license.
AA.
What does the text say exactly?
Orange 'flashes' might be a reference to part of the uniform, eg the coloured piping on the epaulettes etc which the Germans used to distinguish different branches of their army
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