L021781 PHOTOGRAPH GROUPING "Fallschirmjäger" .  

WW2 German Paratrooper Photo Grouping. Fascinating group of five photos, three affixed to a photo album sheet with the image of the paratrooper badge in color at the top and the label "Meine Dienstzeit als Fallschirmjäger ("My Military Service Time as a Paratrooper"). What is exceptionally interesting and rare about these photographs is that three of them show the man wearing a paratrooper badge and collar tabs with panzer skulls affixed instead of the usual Luftwaffe winged gulls. In one of the images, the man also wears the insignia for the Assault Boat Driver on his upper left sleeve! His awards in the photos include the iron Cross 2nd Class, the Army General Assault Badge, the Paratrooper Badge, and the Wound Badge in Silver (or Gold, hard to tell), and the Luftwaffe marksmanship lanyard. There is no definite explanation for this practice, but it is clear that this was his standard uniform and that this was not something done just of these photos. The Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring wore Luftwaffe uniforms with Panzer skull collar tabs, but none of its men were trained as paratroopers after joining the unit. Period photos show a few men transferred into the division from the paratroops who were already jump qualified and had the paratrooper badge, but the title Fallschirm-Panzer Division was an honorific only (the men were not jump trained, were not designed Fliegendes Personnel, and did not receive 75, RM a month jump pay). An extraordinary set of photographs for the advanced collector.

GRADE ****1/4                             PRICE $595.00

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