Show us your UNTOUCHED & BATTLE WORN field tunic!

[Bob Hritz]

It's beat, but it's REAL. It will be in Scott Pritchett's next book.

Bob Hritz

[WEISNER]

Very nice Bob! Sure shows alot of character and I appreciate you posting for us! I would have to bet you may have one or two others you could post LOL! This Beauty is a perfect example of why I appreciate worn and salty over new and unissued!
Best Regards!
Kevin

[PANZERPIONIERE]

Glenn, that tunic is too awsome! The FG covers are the best! What a tunic.
Bob and Luca, great wraps.
Steve

[NZMark]

No tropical pieces yet - so here's a teaser.
An NZ veteran souvenir. Enlisted man's Panzer tunic. Sun-faded, not chemically bleached.
Love the more obviously worn items....
Mark

[PANZERPIONIERE]

I present my favorite tunic, a very rare well worn untouched Panzer-Pionier wrapper with full provenance. Plated weave piped skull tabs and M44 shoulder boards. originally applied eagle and sleeve rank, loops for one award.

I am looking for a black panzer M43 cap to go with it. I just picked up a nice pair of late black panzer pants to go with it.

Pictured here with a FG M43 cap, which was very typical for later war.

[PANZERPIONIERE]

Here pictured with a panzer side cap with the twist waffenfarbe of Panzer-Pioniere.

[sander vw]

Beautiful wrap!

[Zauberflöte]

Honestly, I would not know how to describe a 'untouched' tunic other then 100% original? Hence the phrase untouched... Indeed often it is difficult to tell if it was merely (heavily) used in a walking out rule or indeed worn as a frontline garment. I've tried to show some items that leave me now doubt and aren't doctered with post war (I do understand your remark about that Johnny) and thankfully this thread has come up with some old acquaintances and many new ones that subscribe to this as well.

Here is another one to add that I acquired some time ago on the Forum. Perhaps not battle field worn down, but pretty salty enough and the wear one would expect from a Feldgendarm in the field. Neat to see that it has been reworked in '43 and was given a new collar, eagle, re-sized and got its shoulders padded. The cuffband was to short and therefore an additional piece of cloth was added to prevent it from fraying. It is actually for this tunic that I seak some matching sew-in shoulder boards.

[Zauberflöte]

M39 Feldgendarmerie tunic

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[WEISNER]

Honestly, I would not know how to describe a 'untouched' tunic other then 100% original? Hence the phrase untouched... Indeed often it is difficult to tell if it was merely (heavily) used in a walking out rule or indeed worn as a frontline garment. I've tried to show some items that leave me now doubt and aren't doctered with post war (I do understand your remark about that Johnny) and thankfully this thread has come up with some old acquaintances and many new ones that subscribe to this as well.

That is a nice tunic Zauberflöte! The M40 tunic I posted is much the same as yours in that the collar and tabs, liner and Eagle were replaced during a wartime re build IMO and others that have seen it. I think we need to take a bit of liberty when reading the title of the thread, and posting our examples. If we could only post untouched examples this thread would have already run out! I feel it is nice to have all these beauties in one thread!!!! And there is not a tunic in the thread I would not be thrilled to own!
Regards!
Kev

[panzer224]

WOW! There are so many nice tunics out there! We need to keep this thread going! I feel combat tunics are the best because they show the history!

[Zauberflöte]

Has everything dried up??...I'm sure there must be more out there...

In line with the excellent GJ Leutnant tunic that Sander has posted, this upgraded EM M36 tunic that has definitely been in the front line. The tunic is named and belonged to a Oberltnt who was KIA in July 1941 aged 29 as chief of 3rd company I Btl. Rgt. 137. P.D. was killed in a disastrous attack over the River Liza in the Murmansk area and his battalion was decimated after a counter attack. Thirteen (!) officers from the battalion were killed in total.

I acquired this great tunic from M. Davis (actually not easy to find upgraded officer field tunics). Allegedly the shoulderboards are later additions and found by the previous owner; quite unique IMO since they are 100% untouched and a perfect match both in rank, Rgt. as in wear!

[Zauberflöte]

GJ M36 Oltnt

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[PaulR]

These may not have been worn in a battle, but these heavily worn tunics were definitely worn by the original owner.

The airtraffic control official tunic was an "out of the woodwork" find in Norway.

The Judicial official tunic has been denazified and shows MANY field repairs. It looks like it was worn for a while post war, maybe as a POW?

[sander vw]

Very nice gebirgsjäger officer tunic, it would match perfectly with mine!