Panzermänner

[Schulterklappen]

Panzer Aufklaerungs

A photo of Friedrich Tillman, an Oberfeldwebel with a Panzer A.A. Abteilung. I was fortunate enough to obtain several of his Urkunden with the picture. He served with Pz. A.A. 231 and Kradschuetzen Abt. 61 of the 11th Panzer Division. Herr Tillmann's last assignment was with the Panzer A.A. of the Feldherrnhalle Divison.

[Todd Gylsen]

Great pics everyone once again! Thanks for sharing. Here are a couple more.

Award ceremony.

[Todd Gylsen]

Don't know exactly what they are doing in this photo.

[Todd Gylsen]

Goofing around.

[Steff]

Hello
here still few of my photos

[Steff]

[W Petz]

Hello Stef,

Very nice Photos and thanks for sharing them with us. The third photo is very interesting in that the Panzermanner has a weird looking metal eagle on his cap and the totenkopf is on wrong. - Bill

Hello
here still few of my photos

[Steff]

Hello Bill
it could itself here around a SS cap eagle acting

[W Petz]

Steff,

Very nice pic using a SS Cap eagle. Thanks for sharing! - Bill

Here is a pic of a DAK Panzermanner with CT that I rediscovered. Bill

[Tim DC]

1 more with DRL Sportabzeichen

[afrika]

That eagle is, I think, the dragonadler used by one of the Panzer Regiments, I think PzRgt 11? Someone please correct me, but I think it dates back to the Dragoons traditions. It was used by only one Panzer Regiment.

Steve

[R MICHAEL]

Let's bring this thread back up. Here is a new photo of some Panzer men.

[F L Clemens]

Crooked Skulls

Hi, in reference to the crooked skull in Pic 3 of Post 230....

I apologize if this has been discussed before, but does anyone have an informed answer to the question as to why so many Panzermaenner had their portraits taken with their skulls at odd angles?

I'm sure you have all seen many examples of this, including higher ranking soldiers. I can not believe that the bad alignment of the skulls was not noticed by the soldier or the photographer. These were formal portraits so even less obvious details would have been straightened out before the picture was taken or the photo would have been reshot if it was not intentional.

My theory - the sloppiness of the skull placement was a sign of being a front soldier with experience.

Any comments?

[F L Clemens]

Panzermanner #79

From posting 171, that is Cay-Lorenz Baron von Brockdorff, PR15 (you prob know already). Is that an original pic from an album or is it a repro that he sent you? I'd be very interested if there are other pics of him or PR15.

Frederick

[CSP]

some wonderful photos!

...it got hard to only observe.