About Flak Units.

[Chrvip68]

Hi guys,

I'm collecting mostly paper groupings related for the Army, but time to time if i found something interesting or nice priced in other branches i collect them too .

I have notice on documents and mostly on Wehrpasse's and Soldbuch's the majority of ink stamps are with feldpost numbers instead of the "normal" ink stamp.

Does anyone else has noticed this? Or it's a coincidence?.

Perhaps is an explanation because these Flak units attached in other formations and changed and move more often than the others. Any thoughts?

[Ian Jewison]

It's not just Flak but many books have FP Nr. stamps. I have Army Infanterie that used both....

I have some that do not have any FP Nr. at all to some that just use FP Nr.!!

Kriegsmarine are usually full of them!!! Brandenburger are for obvious reasons!?!?!?

What strikes me as odd is the FP No. disguises the true identity of the unit so why use both in a Soldbuch?!?!?!

An order came out 1.9.1944 to render FP Nr. unrecognisable in Soldbuch ...this explains why they are blacked out in many caes....however it was not always carried out!

/Ian