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I think that the tabs are NSKK.

Your tabs keep getting better and better! I love the mint Admin set.

That is an awesome portrait!! IS there anything written on the back?

Great stuff!! I will post mine this evening!!

That is an amazing bar Gary! Congratulations! So this General most likely wore the uniform of an Administrative General?

I love it when entire threads are ruined by broken image links....

Thanks for that addition, Gordon. How did you come across your badge? Talk about rare!

That is one rare grouping of photos. I did not even know that the Croatians had volunteer forces in the KM.

This is the most amazing Ostvolk grouping I have ever seen. I LOVE that ribbon bar!

WOW! I have never seen such a buckle. You should start a thread on this, as I do not want to ruin Rob's thread.

What do the NPEA buckles look like?

Congrats Rob!! I am sure that it is one of your centerpieces. Are there any organizations you are missing?

Any chance of getting you to show us the rest of the album? I have never seen such a grouping of early HG photos!

AMAZING!! I am surprised that I missed these! You have the only complete sets I have seen on the forums. I see that you got one from Eric Queen's collection!

Sandro, These photos are beyond amazing!! Thank you!

That is great stuff! Like the orange tabs, this waffenfarbe is listed only as an outer piping for FD and HG units. The solid color is not documented in the current reference material! I would also tend to think that the green used by the FD would show up as a darker color, like the medical tabs.

Beautiful tabs!! Are the other Pre Apr38 tabs Flight as well? Are they for a junior officer?

Better look at them. Also, they are compared with Medical and TSD insignia.

Another possiblity... I had almost forgotten. The Feldgendarmerie shared a light blue waffenfarbe with the Supply troops prior to Jun1943. These tabs are actually a much lighter color in person. The color is powder blue, which matches the TSD Admin tabs. I dont think that they are DLV as the color is a bit brighter.

Who knows what color the tabs are... they could be green or orange or...? I wish color photography came along 10 years sooner! lol The tabs seem to match the color on the sleeve eagle. What do you think?

Is this photo yours? If so, can scan it again, blowing up the area of his collar tabs to the max size? Also, does the shading on the collar tabs seem to match that of the sleeve eagle? From what I can see, it seems to!

It was not OFFICIALLY possible for the HG unit Feldgendarmerie to have the white tabs with the orange outer piping, as the regulation ordering the replacement of the tabs with the waffenfarbe as an outer piping with the unpiped solid white tabs(Mar43) predates the creation of the LW Feldgendarmerie in Jun43. Before Mar 43, all shoulder boards and straps for members of the HG were white, regardless of the member's specialty, as the waffenfarbe was piped around the collar tabs. With the removal of the piped collar tabs, the shoulder straps were also changed, to reflect the member's waffenfarbe. In theory, it is possible for there to be green FD tabs with the orange outer piping as I have not found any regulations indicating if/when the use of piped collar tabs was ended. They must have been at some time, because of the existence of unpiped green EM tabs. I just dont know. I have yet to come across any FD tabs with the orange outer piping. It would make sense that the other field or forward units, such as the Fallschirmjagers, would have Feldgendarmerie personnel as well. Perhaps they used the solid orange tabs? Mine are not the first set of orange EM tabs I have seen. I have seen two others over the years.

Another

Maybe this color?

Beautiful and rarely seen nebenfarben!! I think that the gray medium level NCO boards COULD be early pre Nov40 Air Traffic Control. Check out the boards pictured in the section. They appear to have the gray nebenfarben. The book does not actually explain the nebenfarben in the second pattern insignia.