Political Warfare Executive

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PWE Shoulder Title
The shoulder badge or title, showing a peewit, was worn on the left sleeve of uniformed members of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) during WWII.
Predecessor	SO1
Successor	Political Intelligence Department
Established	1941
Founded at	Great Britain
Dissolved	1945

During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and black propaganda, with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of countries occupied or allied with Nazi Germany.^[1]