In soft olive-green napped wool with maroon stripes and red piping; approx. 4 cm wide, 15 cm (5 ¾ ") long. Includes brass Medical emblems of the goblet & serpent along with the silver rank stars. The stars are of the period and believed to be original to the shoulder straps, even though regulations required gold-colored stars for medical, administrative and similar services. There are quality control stamps to the underside.

In outstanding, excellent condition - extremely uncommon for Soviet WW2 shoulder boards. There is no mothing to either the piping or the olive-green fabric of the uppers. Both sides are perfectly sound and clean.

With regard to the use of silver stars, the regulations were often ignored during the war in the field when personnel simply used whatever was available. This was especially true early on, soon after shoulder boards were first introduced in the Red Army in 1943.