Seldom seen paratrooper image

[JWL]

Eric any idea what the last line reads, I can see Fallschirm..... but I cannot work out what the last bit is meant to be.

13. fallschirmjägerkompanie

[Eric Queen]

I think it's actually 13.fallschirmkompanie <!-- / message -->

[David Fettes]

I think it's actually 13.fallschirmkompanie <!-- / message -->

Yep I can see it now, the lack of the downstroke on the "k" and the closeness of the "o" to the "m" had thrown me off the scent. Many thanks.

[Napalm]

These are not paratroopers. Just a Lw. officer wearing the RGG sleeveband. These are not even Fsch.Pz.Div. HG personnel as the caption states.

EQ

Well forgive me please as Fjs are not my thing....

[FS154]

Eric is right, it is very rare to find a photo showing the combination of Paratrooper Badge, white RGG colar tabs and the RGG cuff title.

Much much rarer than a good portait photo of an FIK/FIB member.

Why it is so rare? No idea, because the Fallschirmjäger Bataillon RGG excist even longer than the Fallschirm-Infanterie Bataillon.

[FS154]

While most pre-war RGG members had red piping around their white tabs and also around the collar, this photo appears to portray yellow piping around the tabs and collar.
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All RGG members had white collar piping, because white was the color of the RGG. Only the white tabs had piping in Waffenfarbe Red (Flak), Green (Jäger/Fallschirmjäger) and later yellow (Fallschirmjäger).

[Willi Z.]

All RGG members had white collar piping, because white was the color of the RGG. Only the white tabs had piping in Waffenfarbe Red (Flak), Green (Jäger/Fallschirmjäger) and later yellow (Fallschirmjäger).

Yes, you are correct on the collar piping. My mistake. I just looked at some photos of an untouched RGG NCO flak 4-pocket tunic I used to own and it does have white collar piping.

[W Petz]

I will have to look at my FJB RGG photo album that I picked up from Eric some time ago to see if there are any pics showing this combination insignia .

I would also like to mention that FJB RGG members were also used to establish FJR 1

Eric is right, it is very rare to find a photo showing the combination of Paratrooper Badge, white RGG colar tabs and the RGG cuff title.

Much much rarer than a good portait photo of an FIK/FIB member.

Why it is so rare? No idea, because the Fallschirmjäger Bataillon RGG excist even longer than the Fallschirm-Infanterie Bataillon.

[FS154]

Jean-Yves Nasse posted some nice RGG Fallschirmjäger pics in this thread:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=178063

And I had posted a close up of the yellow piped colar tabs.

[Eric Queen]

Thanks Tom for posting the link. Those two photos of RAKEBRANDT are the two photos I referred to in post #1.

I agree with you that (for some unknown [to me] reason) the combination of 1. studio photo, 2. RGG sleeveband 3. paratrooper badge is much more rare than FIK/FIB studio portraits (which are extremely rare). As I said, this is the first/only one I have ever had. And the photo that began the other thread is the only other RGG FJ portrait photo I have ever found but you obviously cannot see the sleeveband in the photo.

EQ