Kriegsmarine Textbook KM Visor Cap

[Gordon Williamson]

A recent donation to the U-Boat Archive which I had the pleasure of being able to inspect.

[Gordon Williamson]

They don't come much better than this.

[Gordon Williamson]

Typical deep blue lining with grey leather sweatband - a large percentage of original KM officers caps have grey leather sweatbands.

[Gordon Williamson]

The hat stiffening band. Typical impregnated fabric (very similar, but thicker, to the kind of backing you can find on officer collar tabs. On KM caps it is usually white, or as here, black. Original issue KM caps rarely have the card stiffeners found in Army/Luft hats.

[Gordon Williamson]

The cap belonged to Leutnant zur See Michael Nielsen of U-775 and was donated to the Archiv by his wife.

[pvon]

Thanks for sharing pics!

Always a thrill to see real ones!

PVON

[JBeltram]

Hi Gordon,

That is one beautiful cap.

Regards,

Jody

[nesredep]

Hi

Gordon

Very interesting and important for KM collectors.Thanks for sharing pics with us.Nice Cap.

Regards

Nesredep

[reinoudmilitary]

Very interesting pictures, didn't know they had black capframe stiffeners too.

[Gordon Williamson]

Very interesting pictures, didn't know they had black capframe stiffeners too.

White is more common, but black is perfectly OK also. The material used is more important than the colour. Card is more suspect as this was not used often on original issue caps but almost always on postwar issue caps.

[reinoudmilitary]

White is more common, but black is perfectly OK also. The material used is more important than the colour. Card is more suspect as this was not used often on original issue caps but almost always on postwar issue caps.

Thanks,

I learned a lot from you already about Kriegsmarine dd-caps and visor hats on this forum (and Torpedo Loss!)

I find the chinstrap also interesting on this one because it looks like the " softer type" (at least it's called like that in KM cap threads on the waf-forum).