Hi all,
Firstly I am not an expert on Fj, as most of my collection is Heer, so please forgive me if these questions have been asked before.
I bought the book, "Deckname Fall Weiss", reading it may take some time as I don't speak or read German but its a very interesting book all the same. Looking through the pictures I noticed that there are a lot of shots of FJ wearing Four pocket tunics in the field and not the standard fliegerbluse. The Luftwaffe four pocket flak tunic that I have in my collection, has French cuffs, the ones in the pictures do not, what model is this tunic and does anyone have one in there collection that they could post pictures of. From what I can see, if they were Heer troops they would be M40 style tunics.
The second question is, that a lot of the photos show tunics with no yellow collar patches, the gulls appear to be attached directly to the collar or in some cases to dark collar patches, why? they cant all be medics And lastly there are a lot of tunics without breast eagles attached, any ideas?
With Heer tunics and insignia there is a massive amount of information avaiable, both in book form, on WAF and the rest of the web but despite spending a lot of time browsing I can not find the answers to my questions, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for looking and any replies.
Regards,
Jonathan
Firstly I am not an expert on Fj, as most of my collection is Heer, so please forgive me if these questions have been asked before.
I bought the book, "Deckname Fall Weiss", reading it may take some time as I don't speak or read German but its a very interesting book all the same. Looking through the pictures I noticed that there are a lot of shots of FJ wearing Four pocket tunics in the field and not the standard fliegerbluse. The Luftwaffe four pocket flak tunic that I have in my collection, has French cuffs, the ones in the pictures do not, what model is this tunic and does anyone have one in there collection that they could post pictures of. From what I can see, if they were Heer troops they would be M40 style tunics.
The second question is, that a lot of the photos show tunics with no yellow collar patches, the gulls appear to be attached directly to the collar or in some cases to dark collar patches, why? they cant all be medics And lastly there are a lot of tunics without breast eagles attached, any ideas?
With Heer tunics and insignia there is a massive amount of information avaiable, both in book form, on WAF and the rest of the web but despite spending a lot of time browsing I can not find the answers to my questions, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for looking and any replies.
Regards,
Jonathan