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    Period KM tropical cap image

    Interesting image that I lifted from the web.
    KM soldier wearing a tropical cap with a KM yellow eagle and metal cockade...
    Perhaps its an army cap that he wanted to look less army ?
    So adding a yellow KM + metal cockade... The eagle looks too big to be an army cap eagle,
    but I don't thing it's large enough to be a breast eagle... Thoughts?
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    #2
    Great image Nick,

    KM breast eagle on that cap in my opinion,

    Chris

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      #3
      Yeah a breast eagle for sure looking at it again!

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        #4
        The eagle can be guessestimated in proportion to the diameter of the cockade.
        MP

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          #5
          Nick,

          It is more than likely a Kriegsmarine cap as well as they were of the same design. As for the eagle, definitely a breast eagle to me. Why would this sailor change out the eagle? Only he could answer that. The cockade reminds me of a officers panzer cap that had the issue tropical cockade replaced with the metal cockade from a visor; the cap has been shown on this forum along with a photo of the original German owner wearing it during the war. A personalisation thing most likely.

          Another possibility for the cap in the photo, a privately made example in the design of issue pieces with these pieces of insignia the only ones available. This is purely a guess though.

          Mark

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            #6
            It could be a Luftwaffe tropical M41 billed cap that he has adapted to a KM version.

            I know it sounds impossible but keep in mind that the KM were the last to get a billed tropical cap in 1942.

            Also look at the contrast in hues of the sand-yellow cap verses the brand new sand-khaki KM tropical uniform.

            Could explain the metal cockade too. Possibly even a privately made billed tropical cap, originally aimed at the LW or KM market,

            Chris

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              #7
              “They NEVER did that...YEAH they did..” Billbert

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                #8
                Tailor or privately made KM cap with improvised insignia. Nice photo Nick

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                  If my memory doesn't fail, according to K. Patzwall's survey DIE KOPFBEDECKUNGEN DER KRIEGSMARINE: 1919 - 1945, tropical KM billed caps at first had a metal cockade and a metal eagle that were soon replaced by specific BEVo/woven ones. I assume that early metal insignia, since movable, might have been easily swapped with fancier ones of different quality (ie the improvised insignia Tim O'Keefe has mentioned).

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