File:ONI JAN 1 Uniforms and Insignia Page 026 German Air Force Luftwaffe WW2 Continental uniforms Officers and men. Flak troops, field dress, service and field caps, helmet, belt buckles, national emblem, rucksack. Aug. 1943 Field recognitio.jpg

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English: German Air Force [WW2 Luftwaffe]. Continental uniforms. Officers and men. August 1943.
  • Private, Flak troops: Field dress. Front. Kanonier. Old style blouse is shown. Open-collared, it is usually worn by officers.
  • Officer's service cap. Note aluminum cord; National emblem [Reichsadler, Luftwaffeadler, Hoheitszeichen]. Worn on caps [Mützenadler] and on the right breast [Brustvogel]; Enlisted man's service cap. Flying Troops.
  • Modern Steel helmet [ Stahlhelm ]; National colors [decal] worn on right side of helmet; National emblem worn on left side of helmet.
  • Officer's field cap; Enlisted man's field cap.
  • Officer's belt buckle; Enlisted man's belt buckle.
  • Private, Flak troops: Field dress. Rear. Kanonier. Rucksack may be replaced by the Army leather pack (Tornister Model 34).

Luftwaffe officers frequently wear breeches rather than trousers. General staff officers may even wear dress breeches showing crimson stripes on the side. General officers show gold on eagles, on collar and cap braid, on cap cord, on belt buckle and on buttons. Trouser stripes are white for line generals, pink for engineer generals. Certain officer candidates wear officers' service caps with colored piping, officers' field caps, officers' collar braid and belt. They do not show any braid around the collar ptch. They are: senior officer candidate (Oberfähnrich), medical master sergeant (Unterarzt), officer candidate pyrotechnician in master sergeant grade.

Page (026) from "JAN #1 a joint Army and Navy publication UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA prepared by the Military Intelligence Service and the Division of Naval Intelligence", a recognition manual released by the US War Departement during World War II for field use by the American fighting forces.

This cumulative military manual was a "Joint Army-Navy" ("JAN") publication illustrating uniforms and insignia of the navies, armies and air forces of Japan, Nazi Germany (Heer/German Army, Kriegsmarine/German Navy, Luftwaffe/German Air Force, Waffen-SS/German Armed Elite Guard), Facist Italy, occupied France and the Netherlands (parts of their navies were based in Western Allied countries), neutral Facist Spain and Portugal, and Allied Turkey. The collection of plates was published as a US Government unclassified public document 1943-44, in the format of a pocket-sized loose-leaf string-tied binder allowing for additional pages and corrections. Today it is in the public domain without any known copyright restrictions.

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This image shows (or resembles) a symbol that was used by the National Socialist (NSDAP/Nazi) government of Germany or an organization closely associated to it, or another party which has been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

The use of insignia of organizations that have been banned in Germany (like the Nazi swastika or the arrow cross) may also be illegal in Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, France, Brazil, Israel, Ukraine, Russia and other countries, depending on context. In Germany, the applicable law is paragraph 86a of the criminal code (StGB), in Poland – Art. 256 of the criminal code (Dz.U. 1997 nr 88 poz. 553).

Date between 1943 and 1944
date QS:P,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1944-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Image file made from a scanned PDF version of "JAN #1 UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA " from the HyperWar Project at the ibiblio site, a digital library and archive project run by the University of North Carolina.
Author Military Intelligence Division of the United States Department of War during World War II

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