"Liberated" Das Reich Wrappers

[DonC]

Check out the 37:00 mark of this video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCipbUt-nK4

[Gran Sasso]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ight=das+reich

[John4022]

What an awesome clip! Thanks for sharing.

[herrgeezer]

Yeah, that's pretty cool... but the two GIs wearing with what appears to be painted camo jackets and one helmet cover are very interesting too!

You also get a very brief glimpse of American film director George Stevens (hands in pocket) with his crew at 6:17 and again at 7:50 walking towards the camera... heck he's in lots of the clips.

Check the GI at 18:08 trying to pry his damaged helmet apart. Apparently, he was in an accident and the helmet got squashed.

[cossack1648]

Very nice. Relaxed GI playing and enjoying their time. Free of any political correctness BS we have to deal with today.

Jack

[sutka]

agree
well deserved very good point
vhen comes to the wraps someone got lucky nice condition and no question original
great video thank you

[OSS]

I enjoyed the Feldgrau gear of the Heer ground pounders as well.

[kammo man]

The painted Tac markings on the walls are great.
The wraps appear to be Das Reich.

[frank savage]

Hi there!

Here's a bunch of better pics, to talking about more specifically. For those who believe in captured panzercrew, look at the trousers they wear. Luky the nephew who find one of these wrap in the granpa trunk!

Good viewing!

[frank savage]

More...

[frank savage]

And last more...
©chronoshistory

[DonC]

You can see the crossed rifles of an American infantry officer on the collars of one of the "Panzer" crewmen under his wrap in one of the close-up shots, so definitely NOT SS troops.


Don

[frank savage]

Yep, of course, but I think that the trousers and boots they wear tells all!

[jimt]

US panzers dress up

Notice the eagle on the SS panzer officer tunic in #9 not normally ever seen . I believe there a few black white stills from this series that show US forces examining these wrappers before they dressed up in them ?

[N.C. Wyeth]

Notice the eagle on the SS panzer officer tunic in #9 not normally ever seen .

Looks like the printed Non-Com style to me . . . or MAYBE even one of those Dachau "Ugly Bird" types once shown on GDC, long ago - but the shorter wing length doesn't quite match up.
[and there has been discussion about this video - and that eagle - here in the past, I think]