Frost_2Para wrote:
Firstly: your place is awesome, so are the pictures. Second, i got a little bit confused when some pictures show coastal gun crews wearing sailors uniforms and with their "donald duck" written "marineartillerie". Why? did they belong to different units?
second, whats the tunic shown with the slashed pockets in the skirt?
I attack a drawing showing a port defende in Nort Africa, the one i comment on last reply
Finally: what would a harbor defence force wuold use: field grey uniforms of sailor one (jumpers, pea jacket and so)?
thanks again
Hi Guillermo,
Glad you like the website.
It is quite common to see Coastal Artillery wearing either the traditional navy "Blue" uniform or the "Fieldgray" with pre-war units from 1936 onwards. They are not part of any different type of formation - they are all Coastal Artillery. It was still regularly seen upto 1941/42/43 when I imagine supply problems overtook the desire to provide so many different uniforms. From then there was more importance attached to the Fieldgrey uniform.
It is one of the challenges in reenacting Coastal Artillery in that you need to have so many uniforms! But there is nothing smarter than the whole unit turned out in their navy "blue" uniforms for parade or an evening event.
Fieldgrey tunics for the Navy Coastal Artillery differed from regular Wehrmacht tunics in one area. The Bottom front two pockets. In Wehrmacht tunics they are sewn on the outside in exactly the same way as the top two brest pockets (just slightly larger). On Coastal Artillery tunics the bottom two pockets are INSIDE the tunic and only the flaps of the bottom pockets show. Sometimes if those flaps are tucked inside the pocket, the bottom pocket will look like a slash pocket. The only other German units with tunics pockets like this were the SS-VT.
I've seen examples of regular tunics mixed with Coastal Arty tunics, and examples with the pocket flaps tucked in, and left out, so you have to remember these are just "general" rules. There are exceptions everywhere.
In Europe, Harbour Protection was the responsibility of the regular Kriegsmarine (not Coastal Artillery) so Harbour Protection units would have worn the regular "blue" uniform and not the Field Gray.
My knowledge of the regulations for wear of tropical uniforms is not so good. From photos I have seen that standards seem to vary widely and I guess depended on what could be obtained. I know Kriegsmarine units often wore tropical Luftwaffe uniforms with KM insignia (Land-based and ocean-based units) but I am less certain on tropical uniform habits.
From the picture you attached that looks like a HBT tunic?
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