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09-11-2021 09:10 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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Certainly drop-tail Luftwaffe breast Adler, but standard Heer/political style cap Adler..
As for the leatherwork, looks far closer to black than brown, so I don’t think any Luftwaffe affiliation can be assigned to it. However, the cap chinstraps seem to lean more toward the brown!
What a mess. I don’t envy you!
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Those mens are wearing regular SA Feldherrenhalle uniform with Luftwaffe insignia on right chest as ordered in 1938.
Headgear is regular SA kepi with final SA insignia from 1937. Kepis do not have piping as those mens rank is not high enought.
In 1935 ordered that all guard units wear same color top in crimson on SA kepi.
As the photo what start this thread, he is wearing SA sidecap with crimson color insignia.
Sidecaps were used mainly during field training.
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Kohima said "Certainly drop-tail Luftwaffe breast Adler, but standard Heer/political style cap Adler..
As for the leatherwork, looks far closer to black than brown, so I don’t think any Luftwaffe affiliation can be assigned to it. However, the cap chinstraps seem to lean more toward the brown!
What a mess. I don’t envy you!"
Was quite happy to find this video photo grab of what I immediately thought was the drop tail Luftwaffe Adler.
This is the 1st time I'd ever seen that and verifies in my mind that these did and do exist if the tunics survived the era.
It is quite baffling though, they wear the SA Adler on their kepis, then the black Sam Brown belt and cross straps. If I'd of posted that by words alone I may of been told it never existed. All along I believed there is no way that would be correct. An SA Adler on a kepi with Luftwaffe drop tail Adler on their tunic, then the black leather work, the whole concept of uniformity by branch of service, tossed out the door.
This is an example of what collecting these things is all about, research and learning and understanding from era images what really happened.
Hopefully more collectors of these things see this and can add information of what happened in a very short transitional period of Feldherrnhalle Honor Guard dress.
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