My cap, got just the cap itself online,and got insignia separate and fixed it up.
My cap, got just the cap itself online,and got insignia separate and fixed it up.
FtrPlt, all junior and staff (Field) Officers (Leutnant through to Oberst) wore the same cap in the period 1955-1962, (When the cloth & embroidered visors came into use)...Generals it seems, always had the cloth & embroidered visors from the inception of the BW to present......Hope this clears it up.
Prost ! Steve.
I'd read that the General officers had the embroidered visors but started second-guessing myself when looking at some older photos -- particularly of General Heusinger. I was on a site where it says he's speaking at some type of school and in one photo his cap is clearly cloth-covered with embroidered badge and visor. The next photo clearly shows what appears to be a general officer wearing a cap with plain black visor. What I think I was looking at was an article on General Heusinger and the officer with the plain visor is mislabelled as being Heusinger. B&W photo so almost impossible to distinguish Major through Colonel boards with the same for General officers. All the above 'drama' driven by the potential to acquire an early cap for a General. I don't have one and, to be honest, I've not been looking for one so hadn't seriously looked at them in detail. Always learning something .. or in this case, re-learnign something!FtrPlt, all junior and staff (Field) Officers (Leutnant through to Oberst) wore the same cap in the period 1955-1962, (When the cloth & embroidered visors came into use)...Generals it seems, always had the cloth & embroidered visors from the inception of the BW to present......Hope this clears it up.
Prost ! Steve.
Gents, I will bump this thread up to date, I have kind of neglected my BW collection this year concentrating on my 1957 awards collection, so I was happy to pick up another visor/peaked cap for my collection when the oppurtunity arose, a "Feldjager" orange piped cap, a 1975 made cap, I only need a white piped cap, from the BW "Musikkorps" to complete the set ! The Feldjager and Musikkorps are the hardest to find..............I shall keep looking, meam while heres my "new" cap......
Prost ! Steve.
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