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What was the US ordnance code for "Laundry Machine, Portable, Squad Issue"?

Found it on google when searching for "pea dot camo", looking for the link again now.

We all know the SS had collar tabs on their Dot44 semi-frequently, and Nelz posted examples of unpiped officer collar tabs, so... possible combination yes, but probably anything but common!

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Cheers Nelz, very interesting pics. The mystery deepens!

I am busy doing some research on late-war ('44+) Waffen-SS uniforms, specifically junior officers - Untersturmfuhrer / Leutnant - and the silver wire piping worn around their collar tabs got me wondering: did the officer tabs retain this wire piping throughout the war, or was it omitted at later sta...

Bit of a Soviet-related question, hope the knowledgeable folks here can help. I am trying to "convert" a German award collection of an individual into a Soviet equivalent. The ideas is that if a German re-enactor has earned a set of medals - e.g. Infantry Assault Badge, EKII and I, Wound B...

People will tell you that the Hiki ones have 101 imperfections - but if you want a cheap tunic to work in, to sweat in, to crawl through the mud in, and to generally treat like a soldier would have treated it (i.e. not worried overly much about the cost of replacing it), then you can't go wrong with...

A mate of mine is keen to join our Infanterie Kompanie as a field cook, but we have run into a hiccup: we're not sure what rank that entitles him to. He would be in charge of the field kitchen on a kompanie level, probably with 1-2 assistants. Stabsfeldwebel? Stabsgefreiter? Any advice or reading ma...

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Hikishop has the pre-war pointed boards: - regular EM: http://www.hikishop.com/ww2-german-prewar-early-shoulder-boards-plain-p-1267.html?pagesize=90 - Unteroffizier: http://www.hikishop.com/ww2-german-prewar-early-shoulder-boards-corporal-p-1268.html?pagesize=90 - Unterfeldwebel +: http://www.hikish...

I am in the process of turning out some German tags for our local FJ group, but I need some examples on how their tags were punched - i.e. did it follow the same pattern as the Heer, or did they have a different style? Could anyone please point me in the direction of photos of actual LW/FJ tags, or ...

I'm guessing DAK also carried more toilet paper...?

Talking about Auschwitz and trials: the 92 year old former prisoner of German death camp in Auschwitz sues German TV station: http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/142125,Polish-Auschwitz-survivor-sues-German-TV http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a3e_1422982379&comments=1 Today court gathered for the ...

Cheers, thanks for that. Actually looking for repro items, they will be going on a "field abuse" tunic that will be getting its fair share of mud and dirt.