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This emblem is the emblem of the city of Danzig.

Several u-boats chosen this emblem.

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Ben

Hi

Thanks a lot for information.

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Ben from Cherbourg

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Hi

Again, i ask for opinion about this KM Officer Visor cap on a famous site!!!

It's very hard to find a good one!!!

I don't like The chinstrap buttons, they are not KM!!!

http://www.german-historica.de/cgi-local/m..._2661&ln=en

What is your opinion?

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Ben from Cherbourg

Hi

To share with all you, i succeed to have information on WAF.

It's a 30. Minensuchflottille cap emblem:

30. Minensuchflottille

Aufgestellt am 15.3.1943 mit den Besatzungen

der 15. Minensuchflottille. ? Aufgel?st bei Kapitulation 1945.

? Admiral norwegische. Westk?ste ?

Operationsgebiet:

1943 - 45

Geleit- und Sicherungsdienst in Mittel- und S?dnorwegen

Flottillenchefs:

FKpt. Uebe

03.43 - 05.44

Kptlt. Fock (Joachim)

05.44 - 02.45

Kptlt. Muser

02.45 - 06.45

Zugeh?rige Einheiten:

M 266 M 407 M 446

M 291 M 416 M 456

M 348 M 427 M 489

M 437 M 496

Pic from an 30. Minensuchflottille album from the M 456

The link on WAF:

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/sho...ad.php?t=301300

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Ben

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This KM sidecap emblem is new in my collect!!!

I think that it's a sidecap emblem for a Minesweeper or a Sperrbrecher.

Do you have more information on this emblem?

Do you know the name or the number of the KM ship wich used this emblem?

Emblem size: 34mm x 25mm

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Ben

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Hi Gordon

Thanks a lot for your information and your help.

I will pass on this one.

Regards

Ben

Hi Gordon

Thanks for information

If you look inside the blue lining, can you tell what material is used for stiffening the headband of the cap. Normally it should be a stiff woven material like this example, either black or white, or sometimes opaque cellulose.

It's a stiff woven material but the color is a kind of red brown one.

The chinstrap isn't the regular one, at first on the photos it looks plastic but on the last photo where the edge of the strap can be seen you can tell it is indeed leather with a patent laquered finish, so seems possibly OK for the period.

The chinstrap is a leather one.

What I really don't like is the peak. If you look at the many original KM caps in this forum you will see that the narrow gold wire trim between the leather edging to the peak and the gilt scalloped portion is a very thin single twisted strand of wire. Also there should be little or no gap between the embroidery and the leather edgeing. This one has a wide gap.

I don't have your book "Torpedo Loss" in my hands but i remember to see a visor cap, from the Michel collection, with the same kind of peak with a wide gap.

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Ben

More pics

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Hi

Can you give me your opinion about this KM Officer Visor cap?

The chinstrap seems to be a non regular one!!!

It's a non removable cover one.

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Ben from Lorient

Hi

I have this M35 KM helmet in my collect. This one comes from Brest in Brittany.

I don't know why but It's seem to be a M35 SS reissued to KM.

We can see under the KM gold eagle transfer, the state shield transfer.

On the other side, you can see pieces of silver from the SS runic shield.

the KM gold eagle transfer, under the state shield transfer.

We can see pieces of silver from the SS runic shield.

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Ben from Lorient

Hi Jan

Thanks for information.

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Ben from Lorient

Hi

I saw same kind of shirts sold for 112 euros on ebay two months ago.

I don't know if it's really KM WW2 shirts?

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Ben from Lorient

U 963

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Ben from Lorient

U 963

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Ben from Lorient

Fantastic items, i like the 10 U-Flottille emblem!!!

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Ben from Lorient

To share with all of you. I send you pics from my last find from an antique market in Lorient.

This is a very nice wooden sign from the 6 U-Flottille!!!

It was found during a villa renovation in La baule few months ago.

IMO, this kind of sign was used by submariners to indicate that a villa was requisitioned by 6 U-Flottile members.

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Ben

Hi Gordon

Thanks a lot for information.

I agree with you there are a lot of red flags for this cap.

Regards

Ben from Lorient

More pictures

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Ben from Lorient

Can you help me with this strange KM officer visor cap? It's a not removable cover one.

I have doubts on the following parts:

- the chinstrap is not usual!!!

- the black cap band is not usual!!!

- the lining is brown!!!

- the chinstrap buttons seem to be french ones!!!

Is it a french made one or a fake one?

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Ben from Lorient

Here, pics from a good 10 U-Flottille emblem found on an antique market near Lorient.

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Ben

Sorry, i just find all information about my question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy

It's the Kanji for Imperial japanese navy.

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Ben

Can you help me to have a translation from this lining?

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6283/ja...ycapnamepv7.jpg

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Ben

Few KM items from the same place:

Little badges (diam 25/30mm) from the U172 et U163. I don't know for what (access, tools,...)

Little metal plate (35mm x 35mm) from the U155

That all for today!!!

Thanks

Regards

Ben from Lorient

Hi Haruki

Yes, it's wonderful to find the same bottle!!!

Do you know if i can buy this bottle? (i don't speak and read japanese!!!)

If you can help me to buy it, send me an email.

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Ben from Lorient

Hi Scott

Thanks for your grand father picture.

It's a typical 29th division picture, all the 29th members must wear the schinstrap exactly as on the picture.

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Ben