Garry: do you have anywhere the regulation about the Fahrtenanzug of the MHJ? Somehow I doubt that they wore the normal HJ field cap.
Sorry Daniel, missed this one first time around. The Fahrtenanzug headwear is described
here (posts 1 and 7).
We discussed the round badges briefly
here and I still haven't come across any period info that describes them and attributes them. As late as the end of 1942 the Marine-HJ qualification patches (Seesportprüfung A, B and C etc) are still described as follows and as we all know them:
On the Arbeitsbluse, white with blue stitching. Otherwise, blue with red stitching.
Seesportabzeichen: oval patch with red anchor
A-Prüfung: oval patch with one chevron
B-Prüfung: oval patch with two chevrons
C-Prüfung: oval patch with three chevrons
Seefunkabzeichen: oval patch with lightning
Spielmannszug: same as the patch for B-Prüfung but with the point of the chevron facing up.
Going on what the regulations are telling us, these odd circular patches with the anchor
and chevrons must have been introduced late. Although it wasn't always an absolute reflection of what was happening at the time of publication, the Organisationsbuch der NSDAP for 1943 certainly doesn't show them:
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