General Photos Topic For 1950 to Todays Bw, Please Add Yours Here.

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From the 60s I think. Can someone ID the truck, or is it a large Trailer sort of thing being towed by a truck?

[Proud Kraut]

It´s a 1,5t Unimog truck. The cabinet on the load bed makes me believe that this a "Werkstattwagen" workshop truck. Nice photo!

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6 hours ago, Proud Kraut said:

It´s a 1,5t Unimog truck. The cabinet on the load bed makes me believe that this a "Werkstattwagen" workshop truck. Nice photo!

Tanks Lars.

 

 

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Here's a find from the 1968 The Bell, the graduation yearbook of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

 

Major Frank Schild at the school 1968, wearing the 4th Panzergrenadier Division patch. the unbelievable part of this is I found him in a very brief search. He would rise in the end to Major General.

[Proud Kraut]

Major Schild is wearing the "Zweitaschenrock", a 2 pocket tunic w/o breast pockets which was worn until the ealy 1970´s. One can recognize the serrated (crimson) collar tabs "Kragenspiegel" worn by General staff personnel. The two ribbons are most likely the "Sportabzeichen" (sports badge) and the "Rettungsschwimmabzeichen" (lifesaver badge). And of course the bullion patch of 4. Panzergrenadierdivision. Thanks for posting, patches!

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23 hours ago, patches said:

Here's a find from the 1968 The Bell, the graduation yearbook of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

 

Major Frank Schild at the school 1968, wearing the 4th Panzergrenadier Division patch. the unbelievable part of this is I found him in a very brief search. He would rise in the end to Major General.

He's got a German Wiki Schild, here the English version.

 

https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Frank_Schild?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

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Stauffenberg's son in 1968, he too was in the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class of 1968.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Maria_Schenk_Graf_von_Stauffenberg

 

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Anyone could be forgiven if they thought this is a WWII photo but in fact it is a 1953 one, of the pre BW Border Force, the  Federal Border Protection Force, outfitted with the old TR stuff, except uniforms right, here they had a new style right.

[SARGE]

Yep,

 

Here is a BGS pull over camo poncho shown in wear over the camo BGS jacket.  These guys in the photo are wearing it over their regular uniform as you can just barely see the BGS eagle patch on the left shoulder of the MG gunner.  

 

 

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Here's the standard wool uniform, again photo from 1953.

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