Drillich tunic, opinions please...

[Mike Davis]

Mike,


Have you ever seen this method of application on a later M42 or 43 jacket,wool or HBT? (other than the M42 HBT posted by Robert)


Glenn

Here is same type application on wool M42. As I wrote above, have also seen this on '44 dated pieces and plenty of drillich blouses.

[Glenn McInnes]

Thanks Mike,


I kind of figured that you would have one or two..









Glenn

[Robert P.]

Well,

I thought I'd show off this jacket now that I put boards with slides on them. The 647th was a heavy artillery unit, not flak. I looked it up in the WAF archives.

I have also dressed it with a ribbon bar and a GAB. My loops to hang these are quite simple, just some string loops that I will remove if I someday sell the jacket. Take a look...

Robert

[Johnny R]

That looks very nice now. The unit was a 15cm Battalion that was disbanded in November 1940. The guns and men were used to form AR 33 which was later Panzer Artillery Rgt 33 and part of DAK etc.

[OSS]

I somehow missed this thread but agree with those who like the eagle and tab application. These HBT jackets are underappreciated imo and are rare in the m-42 conguration and rarer still with pleated pockets. Nice jacket