Post your unknown unit and or tactical emblem photos

[Akira Takiguchi]

I am happy to have you here, Richard... How many unit markings of non-fighting units be recorded in the future... I am not so sure... So many are known only to a very small group and could be lost forever...

Here is something I was looking for (maybe you had already known, Richard)...

[Akira Takiguchi]

The larger marking is for Nachtjagdgeschwader (Schmitz/Thies Band 2, S.310) but what is the upper smaller one?

Then only recently I found an album on ebay, and it's from II./Luftnachrichten-Regiment 203, which was under Jagddivision 3.

<img src="http://www.history.jp/images/II-LNR203-TKZ.jpg">

[Akira Takiguchi]

I digitized it crudely (color depends on Schmitz/Thies, the surrounding green is from the picture and I assumed Stab color), I hope I am not doing this too badly.

<img src="http://www.history.jp/images/II-LNR203.jpg">

[TWP]

Akira, thanks for the trouble you go through to educate us. All the best.
Tay

[Akira Takiguchi]

I happen to have a small group of pictures from a Nachrichten unit, which shows a Truppenkennzeichen simlar to one of the markings shown by Richard...



Digitized it:

[Akira Takiguchi]

This is a Heeres Nachrichten unit (tactical marking etc.)

One of the photos show a truck with IY-202948. IY is the license number prefix for Düsseldorf.

And one of the photos has the photoshop (no, not the software, atelier) marking Foto Söhn. Googling with the name immediately shows a photoshop still in good running order in Düsseldorf.

So we can rather safely assume that this unit is from Düsseldorf!

[Akira Takiguchi]

Ok, so now we look in Tessin Band 16... The photos were taken just before the operation Barbarossa (June 1941). Oops, I can't find a match for a Nachrichten-einheit for the date...

So I had to stop... Can anyone (probably from D&uuml;sseldorf) help? (it would help Richard too) The character has something to do the city?

[werner geier]

earlier this year a friend asked me to id a rather crude emblem found on a kettenkrad he had salvaged in norway. i wasnt able to help but recently i stumbled over this pic on ebay. the seller was the notorious mr. bethge and as you would expect, it came with a fantasy caption. in this case "das reich". note the wh-licence plate...

[Akira Takiguchi]

The emblems on WH80449 are those of 34 Infanterie Division (shield)and XII Armeekorps (S), I hope someone finds that useful.

RW

I am "someone"!

Ach so, 'S' stands for 'Schroth'! Then I./Flak-Regiment 26 must have been under his command at one time...

http://www.history.jp/wehrmacht/010.htm

[Akira Takiguchi]

Very interesting, Werner! The marking is mirrored on the photo and on the vehicle.

The following picture would be sold as "Das Reich" by Herr Bethge!



It is actually Luftnachrichten-Abteilung 31 / I.Fliegerkorps (don't know which is which).

[lolle]

Is it possible to get some info out of the two photos added ? Unit perhaps ?
It seems to be luftwaffe related. On second photo the emblem is only partially vicible.
thanks
lolle

[lolle]

second photo

[werner geier]

akira,
i noticed the reversed marking. but it gets even weirder. on the same kettenkrad this marking can be found mirror-inverted as well. ???
a riddle or just a drunken painter?

[Todd Gylsen]

I'll post a few more of my press photos which have symbols on them that I am not sure what the symbol means. Here is a symbol of a duck on the door of a vehicle. I believe it is for a Propoganda Kompanie but am not certain of it.

[Todd Gylsen]

Here is another one on the door which I believe is another Propoganda Kopmanie symbol. This one has a squirrel on the door.