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[cicalone]

hello, a question, the medical staff of the wehrmacht heer can have decorations on the jacket of fighting? what could be its armament over medical equipment?
thanks to all for your cooperation

[DonC]

Medical personnel were entitled to wear any of their awarded decorations just as other members of the Wehrmacht. I believe that medics were not to be armed.

Don

[OSS]

German medics were authorized to wear sidearms for personal protection, as I understand it.

[DonC]

German medics were authorized to wear sidearms for personal protection, as I understand it.

Officers only, or enlisted as well?

Don

[pauke]

med

A frined whose father was an NCO Sanitaeter told me his father carried a small caliber pistol. He disappeared in early 1945 on the Eastern front. Don't know if it was regulation for him to have the sidearm however.

[RonR]

These men were armed with pistols......


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[Tom Pearcy]

a little off subject, Chaplains were not supposed to carry sidearms either but they did. You have to protect yourself no matter who you are.

[cicalone]

Grazie a tutti

[RonR]

From WW1...


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[-Ray-]

a little off subject, Chaplains were not supposed to carry sidearms either but they did. You have to protect yourself no matter who you are.

I can agree with this. I approached our Chaplain once with this question. His reply is that it's optional. Most would not elect to do so though.

In our Army the field medics carry M-4 Carbines as well, just like rest of us troopers.


-Ray-