Flammenwerfer! Flames, skulls and stuff

[bob lembke]

Taurus454' date='27 May 2010 - 23:02 ' timestamp='1275015740' post='407515']

I have a Soldbuch from a Flammenwerfer company soldier. I don't recall specifics about him but will copy it and post it if there is interest. It is pretty cool!

Please do. I have built a database of Flamm=Pioniere from Garde=Reserve=Pionier=Regiment (Flammenwerfer) , and it now has data on about 1200 men. I would fold your guy into it and post if I have anything else on the soldier from the data-base or other materials. Haven't seen a Soldbuch, but I have two Militaer=Paesse from the flame regiment, my father's, and a copy of one sent to me by a kind collector.

Bob Lembke

[Taurus454]

Two things!

First, sorry guys, I pulled the Soldbuch and the soldier was in several Minnenwerfer units. I could still post if you like but it is not a Flammenwerfer soldier.

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Hope this helps!

Tom

[Sergeant 08]

A skull on Imperial Marine caps? Possible on Freikorps headgear!

Edited June 1, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Sergeant 08]

Rarer to find are small skulls on caps!

Edited June 7, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Robin Lumsden]

Rarer to find are small skulls on caps!

Small skull and pilot wings on the cap! :speechless1:

[Robin Lumsden]

Another skull I got today.

Anyone else got (or even seen) one?

[Robin Lumsden]

Reverse...

[Sergeant 08]

Another skull I got today.

Anyone else got (or even seen) one?

Is it not this one?

[Sergeant 08]

Yes, I think! Post war swimming badge.

Edited June 8, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Sergeant 08]

Some of these badges are still an mistery. When made?

Edited June 8, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Robin Lumsden]

Is it not this one?

Thanks!

That's the photo I was looking for! :jumping:

[Chip]

Maybe I'm not getting it, but seeing that skull patch on a woman's bathing suit just seems wrong. :Cat-Scratch:

[Robin Lumsden]

Maybe I'm not getting it, but seeing that skull patch on a woman's bathing suit just seems wrong.

Here you go.............

[Robin Lumsden]

Photo above dates from 1932.

[Robin Lumsden]

Post war swimming badge.

Not necessarily..........they wore two-piece swimsuits long before 1945.

Here are some from the 4th Century AD. :rolleyes:

[Robin Lumsden]

Maybe the black skull was for swimming in treacle! :cheeky:

[bob lembke]

Maybe I'm not getting it, but seeing that skull patch on a woman's bathing suit just seems wrong.

Some time after my first wife and I separated, I found some photos of her mother about the house, and got them back to the spousal unit. In the pictures her mother and at least one companion young woman were wearing one-piece bathing suits with large swastikas across the chest, at least 10 inches wide. Some of the suits and emblems were black on white, some white on black. I found it rather fitting, as the charming woman, a registered nurse and a "church lady", beat her children brutally and tormented them in other ways, and her death was almost met with glee from her children, much to my discomfort.

Neither she nor anyone else on both sides of the family were German-American; they were English-Americans. The pictures seemed to be taken in the 1930's. So I imagine that the origins of the suit ornamentation was from the Native American tradition, not some Bund bathing club.

Bob Lembke

[Sergeant 08]

Not necessarily..........they wore two-piece swimsuits long before 1945.

Here are some from the 4th Century AD.

Robin, I think you know the photo. Look at the woman in the background.

I'm no fashion expert.

But the style of clothes looks more like 50's or early 60's to me.

Edited June 9, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Robin Lumsden]

I'm no fashion expert.

But the style of clothes looks more like 50's or early 60's to me.

You are probably right!

[Sergeant 08]

Have we ever talked about skull symbols on air planes or tanks?

Edited June 9, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Robin Lumsden]

Another.

Von Hantelmann.

[Sergeant 08]

More photos!

Edited June 9, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Robin Lumsden]

In colour.........

[Sergeant 08]

And tanks!

Edited June 9, 2010 by Sergeant 08

[Robin Lumsden]

Friedrich-Karl, Prinz von Preussen...........