Russian KM Volunteers

[willie777]

Were there Russian volunteers in the Kriegsmarine? If so, what did their uniforms look like?

[Askold]

As far as I know there were no Russian volunteers in KM. The closest would be Ostbataillons in Coastal Artillery and construction units working on the West Wall.

[willie777]

OK, what uniforms did the Ostbataillons in Coastal Artillery wear? Was it just the KKA uniform, KKA uniform with different insignia, or a totally different uniform?

[pzrwest]

I remember seeing a pic of a volunteer in Koastal uniform on the westwall but what nationality he was all I remember about the pic was a sleave shield of some type

[Askold]

Individual nations contributed volunteers to KM and wore according uniforms. For example the Dutch and Estonians would wear regular KM uniforms + national shield. Ukrainians in KA wore regular Kusten Art. uniform + the patch. Ostlegions would wear standard uniforms for the Osttruppen, which was similar was basic WH uniform with national insignia.

P.S. The two cases of foreign pics are a Soldbuch for a Ukrainian in KA which I have and a Soldbuch for a Turkestani volunteer which was posted on the forum. I also came across number of dogtags for foreign volunteers with KM - Ukrainians, Georgians and Turkestanis.

[hochiminhtrail]

Hy guys

i recall seeing KM id tags "Ostlegionär" those tags were ground dug and mixed with Croatian tags all 100% original.

Cheers

Alex

[Askold]

I remember seeing a pic of a volunteer in Koastal uniform on the westwall but what nationality he was all I remember about the pic was a sleave shield of some type

- Where exactly did you see this photo? Was it in a book?

[pzrwest]

No it was on one of the forums just which one it was now I can't remember it might have been a link in one of the posts about the koastal. showed a koastal guy with rifle slung

[km-spain]

Could be this one.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...tch+volunteers

[pzrwest]

Yes that was exactly what I saw. From that I assumed that the koastal artillery did use volunteers as for Russian volunteers I have no idea if there were any.

[Askold]

Yeah I saw those too - fantastic photos of Dutch in Kriegsmarine service.