Naxos

I like the "K" marked Kraftfahrer camo helmet :love:

Have a look: http://www.joemonster.org/link/pokaz/31427/Co_kryja_lesna_studzienka

Kradsch

The Kratsch. batallions where the recce - units (light Cavalry) of the motorized Divisions, ie Panzer-, Mot- and Panzergrenadier-Divisions. Here is a great site to answer your questions: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KradschBat/Gliederung.htm

It would be very interesting to see your uniform as well. Here is more of Wahrheit

Interesting decorations - looks like your typical Etappenhengst (translation: REMF) .

Super Group! PK, that must be a first. :cheeky:

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Thanks Chris; This tunic is different from the usual hero uniforms with all their colourful splendour and decorations. Like your magnificent half-jacket, torn and shredded by the politics of other means, these relics should serve as a reality check and make us pause. .

Here is another image showing a medic cutting the sleeve away for treatment.

Here is a picture of a another soldier treated on the battlefield in a similar manner as Leutnant Wahrheit.

Inspired by Chris Boonzaier’s great thread on a WWI trench tunic, I decided to start one too on a similar tortured garment. The circumstances almost killed this young lieutenant but they also ended a terrible war for him and ultimately saved his life. This is the tunic of Leutnant H. Wahrheit, in May of 1944 he was severely wounded by a gun shoot to the back and hand grenade fragments to head and left arm. The jacket was cut open on the back and sleeve by the attending medic on the battlefield. After Lt. Wahrheit's wounds were dressed the jacket was placed on him to keep him warm (the medic’s safety pins that were used to hold the jacket back together are still in place). Lt. Wahrheit was taken to a dressing station and then evacuated by air to a hospital. H. Wahrheit recovered from his wounds and became a public school teacher after the war. He retired in 1979. Somehow he kept the tunic, as a lucky charm I guess, for the rest of his life. … more on the story later.

Can't wait to hear it. The Best WWI combat tunic I have seen.

Incredible historical piece! What is the man's story?

Great image btw

A moment from the fighting for Quentin Aurrillers March 21, 1918. My tank (#1) in the background. I was for a short time with other men as Stosstrupp (commando) with the Infantry