Nice period photos (all jackets except A-2's)

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Life magazine 1948 NOV, American pilots and crews work for CAT

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Viking Div. July, 1944

 

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[M. from Berlin]

Member of th Fallschirm Panzer Division "Herrmann Göring". The only Wehrmacht unit to be equipped with SS camouflage slip jackets and helmet covers.

 

[Enigma1938]

Member of th Fallschirm Panzer Division "Herrmann Göring". The only Wehrmacht unit to be equipped with SS camouflage slip jackets and helmet covers.
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It's Hermann with one R and they were part of the Luftwaffe not Wehrmacht.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Captured C96 pistol at IwoJima

 

[Spitfireace]

I guess it's a nine millimetre.

 

[Spitfireace]

Or not. Remember the grease guns? Canada and Uk had the Sten, and then US had greaseguns.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

I guess it's a nine millimetre.

If that was an IJA issued/(officer) private purchased C96 , most possible, it’s 7.63 mm Cal.
It could be any cal. If the pistol was captured from China threat by Japanese soldiers or NCOs.

 

[Spitfireace]

russia and china all thirty caliber.

 

[Pilot]

Maybe it helps:

 

[Blackboxr1200S]

Maybe it helps:
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Was inspiration for the Han Solo Blaster

 

[Enigma1938]

Was inspiration for the Han Solo Blaster

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Many different german ww2 weapons were modded for Star Wars

 

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[M. from Berlin]

It's Hermann with one R and they were part of the Luftwaffe not Wehrmacht.

WL= Wehrmacht Luftwaffe. the HD Div originally emerged from a police unit

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Estonia soldiers

 

[Erwin]

NNC

 

[Erwin]

 

[Erwin]

 

[Erwin]

Very interesting one, pilot in the center Illya Mazuruk Moscow 1938