ONI JAN 1 Uniforms and Insignia Page 007 German Army Wehrmacht Heer WW2 Mobile troops. Saddle bags, Panzer Grenadier armored infantry, boots, high shoe, etc. June 1943 Field recognition. US public doc. No known copyright
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German Army (Wehrmacht Heer). Mobile troops. Panzer Grenadier MG34 light machine gunner; Jack boot - all arms; Artillery boot; High shoe/ankle boot; Cavalry boot; Cavalry private first class; Saddle bags carried on horse. Cavalrymen serving in reconnaissance units of infantry divisions belong to the infantry arm. Infantry of an armored division re designated Panzergrenadiere. June 1943.Page (003) from "JAN #1 a joint Army and Navy publication UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA prepared by the Military Intelligence Service and the Division of Naval Intelligence", a recognition manual released by the US War Departement during World War II for field use by the American fighting forces.This cumulative military manual was a "Joint Army-Navy" ("JAN") publication illustrating uniforms and insignia of the navies, armies and air forces of Japan, Nazi Germany (Heer/German Army, Kriegsmarine/German Navy, Luftwaffe/German Air Force, Waffen-SS/German Armed Elite Guard), Facist Italy, occupied France and the Netherlands (parts of their navies were based in Western Allied countries), neutral Facist Spain and Portugal, and Allied Turkey. The collection of plates was published as a US Government unclassified public document 1943-44, in the format of a pocket-sized loose-leaf string-tied binder allowing for additional pages and corrections. Today it is in the public domain without any known copyright restrictions.
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