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Women in the DAK

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I am looking for any informations about women with the DAK. I have some infos about women from the red cross serving with the DAK. I need pictures of them .... I have only 1 portrait picture and one from the osprey book. I have to make the uniform myself and need as much detials as possible. :wink:

Thanks a lot for your help!
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Hi!!

Do you see this???!!!

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/b ... =slideshow

I think they are from the California Historical Group.

Enjoy it!!!

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My wife is a member of Aachen Stadt I which is the DRK unit within the CHG. This past year they started putting together their DAK uniforms. Right now they are basically LW tropical feldblusen that are beting modified. An order has been placed with Chen of ANT-Z militaria to have skirts made.

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DRK nurse Ilse Schulz wearing the Iron Cross and Afrika Korps cufftitle flanked by two Knight's Cross holders
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Wonderful pictures (I mean the old and the modern ones). Thanks for share them!! 8)
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Our Muti, Lynn, of the U-Boat Society, recently made three DAK tropical uniforms for our female members. They wore them on our display at Beltring, Damyns Hall and Detling. Here are the results:-

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The uniforms were worn with either the female tropical pith helmet or the standard DRK white nurse's cap with embroidered 'DRK' tape on the edge. What also isn't widely known is that the original uniforms had 'culottes' and not skirts. However, these were later discontinued as skirts were preferred in the warmer climes.
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:D Hi friends,
this is our impression of tropical DRK uniform...the base is an Italian tropical cotton "massaua"....for sahariana bluse.
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The gals of Aachen Stadt I have added more elements to their tropical uniforms. They're slowly but surely making changes to them. Here you can see belts and skirts added:

http://www.germanredcrossww2.com/slideshow_flash4.html
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Blimey, they are fantastic, where are they based, in the US?
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Schäfer wrote:Blimey, they are fantastic, where are they based, in the US?
Yes. They are here in Southern California. If anyone is interested. Get a hold of Chen at ANT-Z militaria. He has the pattern for the skirts. Not sure if he's doing individual orders though. The girls were able to have them done since they had a group order.
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