Fieldgrey Kriegsmarine Uniform Gallery!

[monte cassino]

nice

really beautifull jacket!

Here is my nearly new/hardly worn early war period KM-KA summer, fieldgrey tunic which, while there are no tailor or other labels or markings present, I believe was possibly a tailor-made piece for the owner - an Oberleutnant (note that one pip is clearly missing from each of the shoulder boards) of the Naval Artillery career stream in a Coastal Artillery Battalion.

The cloth is a heavy-quality cotton corduroy-like (ie. ribbed) material and the tunic is unlined. It has wide, open cuffs and a 5-button front with patch-type pockets that have a central pleat and scalloped-style flaps. There are no inside pockets. There is a centre seam in the back that ends in a slash. There are no belt buckle eyelets. The tunic buttons are all marked on the reverse with a Weimar-pattern eagle at the top; a manufacturer code below that, being "20", on the left and the letter "M" on the right, and a star at the bottom. The matte-gray finished face of the 3-piece buttons shows the navy fouled anchor on a ribbed background.

The Celleon breast eagle on dark green badge backcloth is hand-stitched to the tunic. The collar patches are machine-stitched. The central gold striping of the collar patches is also Celleon, but the silver portion appears to be of a thread/cord material finely-wrapped with wire. The shoulder boards are of the slip-on variety and held-down by snap-style grommets. As mentioned above, there clearly was one pip on each of these boards, but they have been removed.

Regards,
John

[Martin Simon]

I just found this old thread I hadn't seen before. Gave me a few hours of pleasure going through it all.
Pitty it's not pinned in the KM forum, some pretty amazing tunics out there and a good reference source.
If anyone has any new additions to the collection to share...

[marine]

I just found this old thread I hadn't seen before. Gave me a few hours of pleasure going through it all.
Pitty it's not pinned in the KM forum, some pretty amazing tunics out there and a good reference source.
If anyone has any new additions to the collection to share...

+1!


Cheers,Morten.

[BACTON]

A couple more from my small collection

Coastal artillery musician NCO, and marine infantryman as seen at St Nazaire

[kaiserwilhelm2]

Great thread - pinn worthy.

Some beautiful tunics for sure. Although not a KA/KM collector I can really appreciate the fieldgrey/golden combo.

[all1knew]

The uniform of Waue, Georg who was the last Pula’s Festungskommandant (not Hafenkommandant) and was shot by his captors (Tito & Partisan units) on May 8th, 1945

https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/...Waue-Georg.htm

https://www.valka.cz/topic/view/164824

the awards & ribbon bar are not his and were added only for display.

William Kramer

[kaiserwilhelm2]

Lovely tunic Mr Kramer.

[Martin Simon]

Both lovely tunics, thanks for posting. Love the musician one, don't see that very often.
Martin

[km-spain]

Nice tunics mates, love them

[km-spain]

Please moderators move this thread to the Kriegsmarine forum, it should be there.

Thanks in advance

[Schulterklappen]

KM PO Mantel

Here is my PO Mantel.

[jmcm]

My one and only.

[jmcm]

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[kaiserwilhelm2]

Great tunic! Now only if these guys had done any serious fighting.

[km-spain]

Nice coat Schulterklappen, a rare rank one