kriegsmarine

I have come across a post from wingman15 about my grandfathers Kriegsmarine Cap. The question I have now is was MHJ Koblenz a HJ training school or camp or was the "Koblenz" a patrol boat that operated near Norway. Resource requisite.eu At 19:25, SCHIFF 9 (KOBLENZ) hits a mine and sinks in a few...

Hello, here are some pictures of my new Marine-HJ blouse. The Kielerkragen is from the Kriegsmarine and the Halstuch is "homemade". Hope you enjoy the pictures. Regards Holzwurm

When I bought this photo from this HJ member, I was thinking he was wearing a kriegsmarine cap, but then when I had it scanned I noticed it couldn't be a kriegsmarine cap and looked more like a Reichsbahn or Reichpost... What are your opinions on this one?

Sometimes it pays to look. I was looking at a militaria site in the Netherlands and look at what I found . This rare blouse was listed as a Kreigsmarine work tunic . The blouse was humped up postwar by either a dealer or collector who could not positively identify it. So they made it a...

Photos from an award of decorations to a Kriegsmarine coastal artillery unit. One Marinehelfer is awarded what looks like a War Merit Cross (with swords?). Kriegsverdienst Kreuz (mit Schwerter?).

I'm doing a little bit of research on the Marine-HJ, and I came across a picture (see attached picture 2, the guy without a hat) posted by Alois in an earlier thread of a HJ member wearing a white Kriegsmarine Matrosen Hemd. The question in that specific topic was if he was wearing a white...

Hi, in need of some help and hoping to get some honest genuine answers. When my grand father passed away I received a suitcase full of WWII German artifacts (on reflection I suspect he left this to me due to my own military career)... the above photographed HJ badge just being one (leather...

I have become interested in the M-HJ since I bought my first MHJ Oberrottenführer patch recently. Are there any English language books on the subject that anyone is aware of? Did any former MHJ cadet go onto making a name for himself in the Kriegsmarine? Any RK holders that used to be MHJ? Or...

:001_cool::001_cool:New HJ musician and Kriegsmarine

"Personalbuch für den im Kriegseinsatz der deutschen Jugend in der Kriegsmarine eingesetzten Marinehelfer" Posted with kind permission from WAF user Ausweis. Kriegsmarine Personalausweis and Personalbuch for Marinehelfer Harald Wendling. Both items indicate Wendling was hard of hearing in the...

Hello fellow forumians (Newly created title) :help: I am in desperate need of a photograph/picture of a German Navy Officers candidate uniform. (Kriegsmarine Offiziers Anwerter) It probably would be a cadet uniform, with as o.c., a noncom rank "ohne portepé". Anybody willing and able to help...

Many young soldiers were proud of their HJ-Leistungsabzeichen and wore the badge on their unforms. Here's a few examples: Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, RAD. ../henrik