patches Posted November 12, 2021 Share #1 Posted November 12, 2021 Just found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Jerry Posted November 12, 2021 Share #2 Posted November 12, 2021 Rare to find a HG portrait pic let alone in camo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Kibler Posted November 17, 2021 Share #3 Posted November 17, 2021 Great shot!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 22, 2022 Author Share #4 Posted June 22, 2022 Two more,1942, given that it is not a desert or semi desert environment (Tunisia-Sicily), but a Green Wooded Background, perhaps photo taken then either at the HG's Recruit Training Base in Holland or at the HG's Home Garrison in Berlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SARGE Posted June 22, 2022 Share #5 Posted June 22, 2022 It looks like their rolled up shelter halves are in Wehrmacht camo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 23, 2022 Author Share #6 Posted June 23, 2022 10 hours ago, SARGE said: It looks like their rolled up shelter halves are in Wehrmacht camo. Interesting point, never thought about their Zeltbahns, we gather they would of been the standard Splinter Pattern and not SS types, the standard ones being issued to them since the beginning of the unit right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dune Panther Posted June 23, 2022 Share #7 Posted June 23, 2022 Why was the HG Panzer Division kitted out in SS camo in the first place? BTW, these images are amazing! I have never seen anything like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Jerry Posted June 23, 2022 Share #8 Posted June 23, 2022 I think Hermann knew it was better- I think the HQ also used the SS method of 5 tanks to a squad vs. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 24, 2022 Author Share #9 Posted June 24, 2022 16 hours ago, Dune Panther said: Why was the HG Panzer Division kitted out in SS camo in the first place? BTW, these images are amazing! I have never seen anything like them. It was decided to give most of the Brigade, it was still a Brigade in 1942, camouflage smocks and helmet covers, so the only ones in existence at that time was Waffen SS ones, the paratroopers had their camouflage jump smocks, but here we guess they just decided to go with the SS pattern. By the late summer of 1943 they were withdrawn, and the splinter Heer type Luftwaffe type start to be issued, but bits and pieces of the SS stuff still could be seen well into 1944, and even when the division was transferred to the Russian Front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dune Panther Posted June 24, 2022 Share #10 Posted June 24, 2022 Thank you all for the information about the HG SS camo details. At least the rivalry between Göring and Himmler did not extend so far as to prevent Göring's own troops from being supplied that way, in arguably the most effective camo then available that the German side possessed (regardless of service). Also an interesting point made about the TO&E of tanks, a subject worthy of further research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 25, 2022 Author Share #11 Posted June 25, 2022 Here's a couple of SS Covers still being worn in the HG, here in Poland October 44. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 1, 2022 Author Share #12 Posted July 1, 2022 Another HG man still with the SS Smock in Poland, September 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 7, 2022 Author Share #13 Posted July 7, 2022 Here's some more, Fallschirmjäger , not certain, but these troops could be from the HG Div, as there was a Parachute unit transferred permanently to the Brigade Hermann Göring in 1942,Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 5, which was redesignated Jäger Regiment Hermann Göring when the unit was being expanded to a full division, and some of these guys my have kept their jump helmets and jump smocks. if not the these are of the 1. Fallschirm Division and got the smocks from HG stores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share #14 Posted August 13, 2022 A drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 26, 2023 Author Share #15 Posted March 26, 2023 This is in September 1943 in Italy, SS Camo still being worn here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake36bravo Posted March 27, 2023 Share #16 Posted March 27, 2023 On 3/25/2023 at 11:48 PM, patches said: This is in September 1943 in Italy, SS Camo still being worn here. Palm pattern smocks to boot on both. That's an incredibly unique field applied camo pattern on the M35 helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Jerry Posted March 28, 2023 Share #17 Posted March 28, 2023 Looks like he uses leaves as reverse stencils- I used to do that on some of my archery bows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share #18 Posted April 6, 2023 The new Camo for the HG, Splinter Pattern, South of Cassino, note the Italian Canteen he carries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 21, 2023 Author Share #19 Posted April 21, 2023 1942. Probably taken either in The Netherlands or Berlin, a HG Schuetze in SS Camo with a Rifle Grenade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake36bravo Posted April 30, 2023 Share #20 Posted April 30, 2023 On 4/5/2023 at 11:31 PM, patches said: The new Camo for the HG, Splinter Pattern, South of Cassino, note the Italian Canteen he carries. Sometimes I find it hard to understand the particular choices these troops made in what they carried. The other day I noted a FJ with not one but two pistols on his belt on each side. One was the standard hardshell P08 Luger while the other was a .32 ACP. This gunner curiously has K98 pouches which now that I think about it might suffice for some last ditch rounds should he spend everything in the 2 drum magazines hes lugging around. He's also carrying a flare holster on his belt as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 2, 2023 Author Share #21 Posted May 2, 2023 Here's one, HG Pz Div in Poland September 1944 still wearing the SS Smocks, but note at least one of these troops wears your standard Heer/Luftwaffe Splinter Pattern Cover, while the others seem to be wearing covers that are unascertainable, the one in the prone though, his may be an Italian Camo Cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share #22 Posted May 29, 2023 A Motorcycle Rider in Africa, his Bike is Italian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 23 Author Share #23 Posted January 23 SS Camouflage Smock sightin., An HG Panzer Flak unit in Sicily, a Sd.Kfz.251/17 Ausf.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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