"Liberated" Das Reich Wrappers

[markus]

I can't recall seeing an UStuf wrap with a "KvK" ribbon through the buttonhole.

"Refreshing" since it's not the usual EK-2/Ostmedaille ribbon you generally see on wraps.

Markus

[sutka]

they dont know how much money they got on them

[sutka]

yes apeers to be das reich

[Gran Sasso]

yes apeers to be das reich

As stated in the headline of this topic...

[Tom Kibler]

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]

Looks like two very different eagles on the wrappers.


Not trying to be redundant, but one appears printed and the other the Dachau version.

[N.C. Wyeth]

Looks like two very different eagles on the wrappers.

Not trying to be redundant, but one appears printed and the other the Dachau version.

One [low-ranking] Officer and two EM's might imply they were "liberated" from a captured crew, or even the side of the road . . . but they could also have been obtained from a warehouse.

The "real" story for how these GI's obtained them would be very entertaining.

[Christian J]

The "real" story for how these GI's obtained them would be very entertaining.

I doubt it.

[kammo man]

Probably found in a baggage truck attached to the unit.
Original owners probably changed into their camo combat suits and went into battle.
Company truck probably lost in battle.

[rob NL]

Interesting to see that one has the CT higher on the sleeve, similar as Wittmann.

[Ian Hulley]

Probably found in a baggage truck attached to the unit.
Original owners probably changed into their camo combat suits and went into battle.
Company truck probably lost in battle.

There is a reference to exactly this either in 'Grenadiers' or the 12th SS HJ Catchpole books … Meyer and Wunsche did a recon and then returned to the HQ area to change into their camouflage combat outfits.

Ian

[kammo man]

Ian
Thats what I was referencing in my post.
In the same book there was also mention of black suits being ruined by shrapnel when stored in the outside stowage bins..........
Boy I havnt read those books in years but some of it stuck I guess.
owen

[Ian Hulley]

Ian
Thats what I was referencing in my post.
In the same book there was also mention of black suits being ruined by shrapnel when stored in the outside stowage bins..........
Boy I havnt read those books in years but some of it stuck I guess.
owen

Same here Owen. The smaller details logged in my brain, I seem to be struggling for RAM memory these days but those things hang on in there.

Ian

[markus]

I had a few vet friends who had lost tunics and favourite pullovers which they had still not forgotten even decades after...

[kammo man]

Its like leaving a favorite t shirt under a one nights stands bed and not finding it in the morning !
But always missing the t shirt !

[SJP]

2nd amour

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=237103

Cheers Steve