Tropical officer eagle

[hcliffe]

Opinions please.

[hcliffe]

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[NZMark]

Harry,
I have to say I like it. I would like it a lot more if embroidered on olive drill as this backing tan material looks like Luftwaffe or KM.
But I like the construction, and the detail, and the deterioration of the wire.
We can't know everything about what was custom made for officers in tropical areas as there was a lot of personal latitude in regulations. But there are too few surviving originals out there. How many times have we seen monkeyed with early tropical tunics on estand and dealers sites lately? Any untouched originals?
Photos of something like this in use will exist, (statistically they MUST). The hard part is that, if we are talking N.Africa, for example, maybe a TOTAL of 180,000 men passed through the AFRIKAKORPS, including those captured in Tunisia. (I won't get into Southern France, USSR's or Italy's numbers!)
Break that down to surviving officer's tunics in POW camps, then those that made it after 4 years of basically continual wear to get back to Germany while not being destroyed on return as authorized...
I squeel when I think of the stockpiles of tunics burned in huge piles in 1943 in N.Africa...
Regards!
Mark.

[Jos L C]

Yup, looks real..

Jos.

[MilitaryCollect]

Tropical officer eagle

Hi fellas,

Eagle looks absolutely genuine. I've seen very few with the tropical cloth backing - all were on privately tailored officer's pattern tropical/DAK tunics.

Happy a Moderator posted on it.

Nice find!

Christopher

[NZMark]

Hi fellas,

Eagle looks absolutely genuine. I've seen very few with the tropical cloth backing - all were on privately tailored officer's pattern tropical/DAK tunics.

Happy a Moderator posted on it.

Nice find!

Christopher

Because at least a Moderator has a worthy opinion (Sorry Harry & Jos, this guy makes me laugh!)
Mark.

[MilitaryCollect]

Tropical officer eagle

Wow, a stalker. Please stop stalking me on this site.

Thank you,

Christopher Stone

[afrikasandman]

Wow, a stalker.

Chris, you should feel special. I am still looking for a stalker .... maybe someday. Matt

[MilitaryCollect]

WAF stalker

[NZMark]

Sorry Harry,
I won't comment on this hypocrit's antics here. Your eagle is a very nice find - well done. Keep in touch.
Mark.

[Johnny R]

Eagle

I am pretty sure there are a couple of photos in books of eagles like this in wear. I will poke around today since it is so nice out in the snow storm. I have not been in the US for a Winter in 9 years. I had to pick this one.