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    luftguy

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    1. Bill, those boards are amazing! Where did you find them?

      I did not see the part about the Golden Yellow nebenfarbe being used for the Nautikers. I will have to find my books again!

      Paul,

      I got them with a pair of Oberingenieur tabs, which led me to believe they were an Oberingenieur d.R. set, but in my opinion, the blue was not quite right for reserves. After reexamining the change order, I now believe the set to an Obernautiker set from after Order LV41 No. 1562 8 Oct, 1941, which also mentions the collar tabs changed from props on dark green to the ingenieur type of props on pink.

      Do you agree?

      Bill

    2. ... However, I thought that the golden colored nebenfarbe was more consistent with the early Meteorologist career...

      Either way, a very rare set of insignia!

      Well it took me almost 2 years to find what I remember seeing. This is from page 94 of the Brian Davis book, "Uniforms and Insignia of the Luftwaffe, Vol.1"

      "The Navigator Corps

      Officers were originally distinguished from personnel of the other branches of the Luftwaffe by the use of gold-yellow combined with dark green as their arm-of-service colour. Thes Colours were displayed by means of dark green collar patches and shoulder-straps with a secondary colour of gold-yellow on the underlay of green.

      Early in 1940 a colour change took place when gold-yellow as the Corps secondary colour was replaced by lemon-yellow."

      So this means the pair I have is Navigator Corps.

      Bill

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