patches Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share #26 Posted June 6, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SARGE Posted June 7, 2022 Share #28 Posted June 7, 2022 I notice that the W-SS Lieutenant in the photo above is wearing an Anti-Partisan Badge as well as a Close Combat Clasp. The lower badges on the pocket seem to be a HJ Honor Badge and a Wound Badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share #29 Posted June 8, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share #30 Posted June 9, 2022 A rather muted colorized one, Collar patches should be Yellow no, seeing he's a Pilot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share #31 Posted June 10, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dune Panther Posted June 10, 2022 Share #32 Posted June 10, 2022 On 6/9/2022 at 4:04 AM, patches said: A rather muted colorized one, Collar patches should be Yellow no, seeing he's a Pilot My understanding is that once one qualified as a pilot in the Luftwaffe, and that qualification was maintained, that they could continue wearing their pilot's badge even if assigned to a non-flying branch of the Luftwaffe. That sometimes happened given the needs of the service and the qualifications of those involved. It could be that the colorization of the collar tabs is incorrect in the above photo? No way to know how it looked in B&W before it was altered. I do not have any period photos handy of pilot badge wearing Luftwaffe personnel assigned to a non-flying branch of the Luftwaffe, but I recall seeing a few (rarely) over the years and an available example is this Luftwaffe Engineer Corps (Fliegeringenieurdienst) officer's uniform that I will include below. Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WW2_Norway._Leica_camera_Nazi_Germany_Luftwaffe_uniform_Engenieer_Official_Fl._Stabsingenieur_Peaked_cap_Schirmmuetze_Luftwaffeadler_eagle-and-swastika_aiguillette_decorations_Posters_etc_Lofoten_Krigsminnemuseum_Museum_2022_IMG_7917.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 15, 2022 Author Share #33 Posted July 15, 2022 The Wedding of Kurt Lau sometime in 1944, his RK and other insignia has been censored. https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/24415/Lau-Kurt.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share #34 Posted July 25, 2022 Leutnant August Ségur-Cabanac an Austrian Nobleman of French extraction (Fled the Terror during the Revolution), with one of his ancestors in Hapsburg service back to the Napoleonic War. Ségur-Cabanac would ultimately be in the 116th Panzer Division , Normandy, Siegfried Line, and will be wounded badly in the Battle of the Huertgen Forest, in November 44, so bad that he spends the remainder of the war in hospital and convalescing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 26, 2022 Author Share #35 Posted July 26, 2022 23 hours ago, patches said: Leutnant August Ségur-Cabanac an Austrian Nobleman of French extraction (Fled the Terror during the Revolution), with one of his ancestors in Hapsburg service back to the Napoleonic War. Ségur-Cabanac would ultimately be in the 116th Panzer Division , Normandy, Siegfried Line, and will be wounded badly in the Battle of the Huertgen Forest, in November 44, so bad that he spends the remainder of the war in hospital and convalescing. Their Coat of Arms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 1, 2022 Author Share #36 Posted August 1, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share #37 Posted October 5, 2022 Think this one is an SS Feldgendarm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SARGE Posted October 5, 2022 Share #38 Posted October 5, 2022 Very nice! Photos of W-SS Feldgendarms are hard to find. It looks like he has a bullion sleeve eagle even though he is a NCO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 26, 2022 Author Share #39 Posted November 26, 2022 A Paratrooper in Evening Dress with Dagger for the occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share #40 Posted December 4, 2022 Not a wedding portrait, but a candid one of Traudl Junge and Hans Junge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 11, 2022 Author Share #41 Posted December 11, 2022 Soldat mit Krimschild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share #42 Posted January 11, 2023 Oberfeldwebel Friedrich Konrad Winkler, 14th Infantry Regiment, sometime in the 30s, later by 1942, Hauptmann, and Kompanie Chef 6. Kompanie Infantrie Regiment 577 305. Infantrie Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 12, 2023 Author Share #43 Posted January 12, 2023 23 hours ago, patches said: Oberfeldwebel Friedrich Konrad Winkler, 14th Infantry Regiment, sometime in the 30s, later by 1942, Hauptmann, and Kompanie Chef 6. Kompanie Infantrie Regiment 577 305. Infantrie Division. He is in fact the oft published officer in the Battle of Stalingrad, the one with the broken Infantry Assault Badge, 305th Infantry Division fights most notably the Barrikady Gun Factory, he became an officer in the early part of the war we should think. His story. https://www.argunners.com/story-behind-famous-stalingrad-photograph/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 28, 2023 Author Share #44 Posted January 28, 2023 The Wedding of Erich Hartmann September 10 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share #45 Posted February 3, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share #46 Posted February 15, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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patches Posted March 26, 2023 Author Share #49 Posted March 26, 2023 The Youngest General in the Wehrmacht, one Erich Bärenfänger, as an Oberstleutnant with his wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 8, 2023 Author Share #50 Posted April 8, 2023 1938, can't make out his Cuff Title to see what unit he's in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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