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septimasexta ago

Someone should scrawl on the poster a link to that pedo going after the baby doll. "pedo reality- NO RAINBOWS!"

letsdothis2 ago

This is probably coming from the Rainbow unit of the military. It's a propaganda war. Look up SHAEF.

septimasexta ago

Found this: https://store.nationalww2museum.org/shaef-d-day-patch.html

Can you give more details? Links? It says this group was disbanded after WW2.

letsdothis2 ago

More stuff here: http://psyopsinsignia.pbworks.com/w/page/19734858/PSYOP%20DIVISION%20SHAEF%20WWII

The question of who would have the overall responsibility for conducting psychological warfare had led to in-fighting among the various organizations vying for the honor. In the ETO the record is clear: responsibility for the conduct of psychological warfare in northern Europe was given to SHAEF’s Psychological Warfare Division (PWD/SHAEF). As a result, it appears that PWD/SHAEF inherited both OSS’s psychological warfare personnel—who were attached to its various organizations—and the spearhead collar insignia. Indeed, there is clear evidence that the spearhead insigne enjoyed some degree of formal recognition by PWD/SHAEF: the design appears on the cover of PWD/SHAEF’s own history [2].

In spite of the appearance of the spearhead insigne on the cover of PWD/SHAEF’s own history, the status of the insigne within that organization is ill-defined. Not only is there no mention of the insigne in the text of the history, the majority of PWD veterans queried by the author report never having seen the spearhead insigne, and several offered assurances that no such insigne existed within PWD [1]. This leads one to conclude that the distribution of these insignia was restricted within PWD. The PWD/SHAEF veterans to whom the insignia were issued recall being told to be circumspect in wearing them—that they should be worn only in the course of discharging their PWD duties and not in casual situations. It is worth noting that all of the documented instances of the insignia being worn involve civilian members of OSS serving in uniform, with officer rank, with 12th Army Group’s Publicity and Psychological Warfare Detachment, which was part of PWD/SHAEF (this includes both Brewster Morgan and Saul Padover, whose photographs are included here).

A number of these insignia can be found in collections attributed neither to OSS/PWD nor to just OSS, but rather to the Information Control Division. What is this all about? There was an Information Control Division, but it was not part of OSS or of PWD/SHAEF. Quoting from the history of PWD/SHAEF [2]: “SHAEF was dissolved officially as of 2400 hours 13 July 1945. With the dissolution of SHAEF, the Anglo-American aspect of PWD’s operation disappeared On the British side an organization known as the Information Services Control Branch, Control Commission for Germany, came into being. On the American side, the successor to PWD was designated the Information Control Division, Hqs. U.S. Forces European Theater, and the Information Control Service, U.S. Group Control Council. ...The reader should recognize that despite these changes in designation, and despite the separation as between Britain and America, the activities of the successors to PWD continued separately in much the same paths on July 14 as they had been traversing before midnight on July 13.”

In the introduction to his history of psychological warfare operations against Germany, published in 1949, Daniel Lerner speaks of the Information Control Division in the present tense, implying that the organization was still in existence, in some form, at the time he wrote his book (after the OSS was disbanded in in October 1945) [3]. If that inference is correct, it is not unreasonable to imagine the use of the spearhead collar insigne extending well into the occupation period, a situation that would explain the existence of some of the unusual versions of the collar insigne that reside in some collections.

septimasexta ago

Great research. So heavy sometimes.

However, I think this guy was already exposing them in the '70's..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNM6R6QV9vo