Panzermänner

[PANZERPIONIERE]

Now those are some interesting embroidered skull tabs, is he recon?
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[Joe Slavick]

Wow! Some great photos in this thread. Here is my humble contribution to the thread. One of my few Panzer portraits.

Joe

[Torpedomaat]

black wrap with Litzen & without collar tabs

[Richard P]

Extremely rare photos. You almost never see NCO's tresse on black wraps of any service. It looks like he may have taken the tresse and tabs off another uniform since it comes up short on the collars.

The other guy not only is missing the tabs, but he has field gray boards that don't appear to have piping, and a panzer M-42...all very unusual. Thanks for sharing these rare examples.

Richard

[12thPanzer]

Panzer Regiment 2 ---photos of same man
wedding portrait was an earlier photo, but on the later Obergefreiter photo, he wears numbered boards
(writing on back that needs to be translated)

[12thPanzer]

Panzermann of IV/ Pz.-Ers. Abt. 100
Panzer Ersatz Abt 100 took part in Normandy, also noted for there stand at La Fière bridge
It was an odd "Unit". If you ever take a look at their Tank inventory, you will know what I mean. Thats why I chose to buy this photo

[12thPanzer]

couple new ones

[jacques]

here are two of mine

[12thPanzer]

Jacques, As usual, beautiful LC photos! You seem to find all of the LCTB Panzer photos out there!! No fair. haha thanks for posting them

[kaiserwilhelm2]

Superb!

[StuGIII]

Sitting panzerman

Here's a sitting panzermanI assume he's a Schutze, not sure though and he has the EK II.

[StuGIII]

sitting panzerman reverse

Here's the reverse of the above photo. The date is obvious, April 1941. However, I can't read the word below the date. Can someone translate it?

[jacques]

Could it be FRONSAC ? a small village near Bordeaux in France. but don't know if any german tank unit was stationnated there in 1941.

[StuGIII]

Fronsac

Could it be FRONSAC ? a small village near Bordeaux in France. but don't know if any german tank unit was stationnated there in 1941.

Hi Jacques,

Thanks for the help. It looks like Fronsac to me too. I didn't know it was the name of a town. How far is it from Bordeaux? Maybe he was stationed in Bordeaux and was just touring around the nearby villages.

[jacques]

Fronsac is around 30km from Bordeaux. German Pz units were there in 1941