The old Suter's uniforms & stuff

[Dave Suter]

This one's for a Luftwaffe Generalmajor (Brigadier General).

[Dave Suter]

These last two boards were posted in here quite some time ago back with the uniforms, but I thought I'd stick them in again just to have all the general officer boards together. This first one is on a Heeres Feldbluse mit Vorstossen (Army Piped Field Service Tunic).

[Dave Suter]

Last one. For a Generalintendant [Generalmajor] of the Wehrkreisverwaltung und Intendantur [Military Area Administration and Intendant's Service]. The 'V-s' are dark green.

[TJ Suter]

Got to love the General officer stuff. I really like the Administrative General - and it's even on a tunic

[Dave Suter]

Well, my camera is STILL at the repair shop, so I've decided to post something different in the interim - stamps. Yes, stamps. Now don't go screaming off into the sunset quite yet. Not thousands of stamps, just two sets.

In '43 and '44 the Third Reich produced two series of stamps for the 21 March War Heroes and Army Day. What I find interesting about the sets are that they depict all the branches of the Wehrmacht and are kind of a window into the propaganda of the times.

The first series is for 1943. This is a type VIIA U-boat.

[Dave Suter]

Waffen SS machine gun troops wearing '40 pattern camo smocks and with an MG 34.

[Dave Suter]

Motorized infantry on BMW R75 motorcycles.

[Dave Suter]

Signal Corps with a Weld field telephone.

[Dave Suter]

Army bridging column setting up pontoon bridge.

[Dave Suter]

Infantry assault party.

[Dave Suter]

21-cm Morser howitzer. Fired a 250 lb shell.

[Dave Suter]

Flak 30 AA gun.

[Dave Suter]

Stuka JU 87B dive bombers.

[Dave Suter]

JU 52/3m transport planes dropping parachutists. Each plane carried 16 men.

[Dave Suter]

PzKpfw Mark IV tank. Last of the smaller ones. Next into production was the Panther.