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Tokyo Marui M1A1

As far as I know, this is the beginning of Allied airsoft reenacting in Croatia. Wish me a lot of luck (and money, do'h )

Nice one Wepar, I hope the interest flourishes once people get inspired by you!

BBC Documentary 'D-Day 6.6.44'

Cracking film using actors and re-enactors to recreate some epic battle scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQR2aptzEkE

Assault on merville

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zrkQtkOUao&feature=related

And some cracking brit line inf scenes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ptGrvTR-NM&feature=related

Oh and my copy is the one with the less jingoistic and overly patriotic British narrator...

Another dirndlbluse, gal can never have enough

Range finder for the cine camera (and calculating MED for the Tanaka). Very popular with the average Landser.

Sanitater tabbard and armband. Need to get them dirty.

Silly question, but i've seen the DRK armband with and without a central swastika, were both used, or is one 'correct'. I've got one without the swastika.

Probably different manufacturers with different patterns. There are a few different versions of Volkssturm and HiWi armbands too.

One of RAUnderwoods new caps, this one is an M38 with green soutache. Very nice, better than the Lost Battalions one I got at Xmas.
3 mags for the Tanaka Kar98 [which is sat at customs].
Printed Oxf&Bucks, embroidered red and khaki Hallamshires and small yellow on green Kings Own Border with glider[post war] titles.
Printed 49th head down polar bears.
2 cheap japanese watches that look period is, no date window or 'quartz' on the face and a leather strap.
Blood Red Snow by Gunter K. Koschorrex.
Victory was beyond their grasp, 272 Volks-Grenadier Division from the Hurtgen to the heart of the Reich, Douglas E.Nash
2nd Tactical Airforce VolIV.
Large black leather gauntlets for my Imperial pilot costume.
Ooops wrong forum that one.

did you bring one back for paul i know he after one k98 that is .oh and i still have the green techno case for you. whats the next event you are at as i will bring it along for you

theres nowt so Permanent as temporary

 

M1 Garand Bayonet and Scabbard of Imp! Cheers Fella!

Scabbard of Imp!

Does that go with Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog?

Scabbard of Imp!

Does that go with Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog?

M1 Garand Bayonet and Scabbard of Imp! Cheers Fella!

Mock ye no, the scabbard of imp, for tis green and pointy ( but I have got a cream for it)

Sanitater tabbard and armband. Need to get them dirty.

Silly question, but i've seen the DRK armband with and without a central swastika, were both used, or is one 'correct'. I've got one without the swastika.

Those with first aid training (ie non professional medic but able to assist in evacuation to a feldlazerett) were not members of the DRK unless by donational consent and had not thus received the full experience and training of the DRK to deal with anything other than in a field position. Where-as full DRK doctors serving within the heer etc would wear the Deutsche rotes kruez variety. Nursing staff and helpers would also wear the arm band with wording. The wording on the arm band therefore signifies the difference in male "first aiders and doctors" to distinguish betwixt the two. All doctors were granted officer roles, all first aiders were not (some were but by and large the most were not).

DRK or Deutsche Rotes Kreuz is the red cross service and functioned (during the tr) in much in the same vain as our military doctors do in 2009. As hospitals in the TR were run by the DRK (doctors held their qualification from the DRK way back before even the Weimer republik), the military doctors all had to be members and participate in secondment to civilian hospitals at some point to ensure they kept their qualification once they had joined military service.

The same occcurs now (2009) with Army/RAF doctors and nursing staff who are required to do a period of secondment in an NHS hospital periodically. A medic is just that there is also the option of (appologies on spelling as I just know this will be done wrong) a Hilfskrankenwerker which nearest modern equivilent is a paramedic but that men in this role were also in the Army and drove the field ambulances (also had first aid training by DRK, but were not members).

definition of low ranking? NCO, SNCO or commissioned?

Ah, I read a very good article on some Axis forum somewhere about stretcher-bearers, field medics, etc. No idea where it was!

Basically, each combat unit would have soldiers who would down arms and assist. They also had a senior NCO who was medically trained. However, none of these were medic staff as such - they were fighting men. They would not wear the blue Waffenfarbe of a medic.

I'll go a-searching for that link...

Sorry, I can't find it - but it was on Axis History Forum somewhere - good hunting!

Good persons to ask on the male side of this are DAS MEDIC on the pst forum, or tom gow whose got a username on here now. Both have researched LW and HEER medics

Those with first aid training (ie non professional medic but able to assist in evacuation to a feldlazerett) were not members of the DRK unless by donational consent and had not thus received the full experience and training of the DRK to deal with anything other than in a field position. Where-as full DRK doctors serving within the heer etc would wear the Deutsche rotes kruez variety. Nursing staff and helpers would also wear the arm band with wording. The wording on the arm band therefore signifies the difference in male "first aiders and doctors" to distinguish betwixt the two. All doctors were granted officer roles, all first aiders were not (some were but by and large the most were not).

DRK or Deutsche Rotes Kreuz is the red cross service and functioned (during the tr) in much in the same vain as our military doctors do in 2009. As hospitals in the TR were run by the DRK (doctors held their qualification from the DRK way back before even the Weimer republik), the military doctors all had to be members and participate in secondment to civilian hospitals at some point to ensure they kept their qualification once they had joined military service.

The same occcurs now (2009) with Army/RAF doctors and nursing staff who are required to do a period of secondment in an NHS hospital periodically. A medic is just that there is also the option of (appologies on spelling as I just know this will be done wrong) a Hilfskrankenwerker which nearest modern equivilent is a paramedic but that men in this role were also in the Army and drove the field ambulances (also had first aid training by DRK, but were not members).

All really interesting info (seriously, not being sarky for a change! ) but what i meant was i've seen different DRK armbands, all with the DRK writing, but some have a swastika in the centre of the red cross. I've got one like in the photo, without the swastika, and had just assumed it to be post-war.

As with most things Third Reich - Armbands are an incredibly difficult and complex subject.
Armbands for Medical Personnel were legion!
There are plain wite bands with a simple red cross - some have a depot stamp others don't - Thos that do have it on the inside OR the outside...........
There are even examples of a similar band with SS runes at the centre of the cross....... AND a depot stamp!
Other examples have a stamp reading "Kommissar der Freiwilligen Krankenpflege"

Armbands can be found with a Red Cross surrounded by the Kreisfrauenverein (Area Woman's League ) legend along with the area itself.

The logo of the DRK can also be found (Black Eagle with folded wings clutching a redcross and having a white swastika on its chest) on armbands.....

Indeed the armband the original poster speaks of has a white swastika in the plain red cross usually - But Black examples are to be found!

It's a minefield!

And then there are the personnel -
Krankenträger - Stretcher Bearer
Sanitäter - Combat Medic
Artz - Doctor

Perhaps reading this would be of interest/use?

GERMAN MEDICAL SERVICES

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The efficiency of the medical services of an army is reflected in the morale and combat effectiveness of that army.

The following details concerning the organization, equipment, and supply system of the German army medical services are taken from an Allied source.

* * *
a. Organization

(1) Infantry Division

2 medical companies, motorized or partly motorized.
2 ambulance platoons, motorized.
1 field hospital, motorized or partly motorized.
(2) Mountain Division

2 medical companies, partly motorized.
2 ambulance platoons, motorized.
1 field hospital, partly motorized.
(3) Motorized Division

2 medical companies, motorized.
3 ambulance platoons, motorized.
1 field hospital, motorized.
(4) Armored Division.

2 medical companies, motorized and armored.
3 ambulance platoons, motorized and armored.
(5) Airborne Division.

3 paratroop medical companies.
1 field hospital (airlanding).
b. Equipment

(1) Of the Individual.

(a) The Combatant.

One large and one small packet first field dressing wrapped separately in black, rubberized fabric 1 box anti-vesicant tablets

(b) The Stretcher Bearer.

In the combatant units - 2 stretcher-bearer's haversacks containing:

1 pair of scissors
1 pair of dissecting forceps
6 packets dressing
3 triangular bandages
3 strips of gauze 16 ft x 2 3/4 in
6 squares of gauze
1 roll of adhesive tape
1 waterproof bandage 18 x 20 in
1 tourniquet
20 safety pins.
In the medical units - in this case, the stretcher bearers are not all equipped with the haversack as above, but each group of four has a haversack (Verbandtasche) containing:

1 pair of cloth-cutting scissors (Kleiderschere)
1 tourniquet
12 strips of gauze
10 squares of absorbent cotton
6 triangular bandages
2 "Brandbinden" (absorbent gauze treated with bismuth for burns)
1 waterproof bandage 36 x 40 in
4 rolls rubberized adhesive tape
35 safety pins
4 small splints with cradle
2 slings, 12 x 5 in
Each stretcher bearer also carries a mug and a bottle with about a pint of cordial.
(c) The Medical Service N.C.Os. and Medical Orderlies.

Each carries a bottle of cordial, a case of dressing material and two medical haversacks, the first containing medicines such as salicylic acid (2%), formaldehyde, ticture of iodine, cardiazol and opium; the second containing much the same dressing material as the stretcher bearers' haversack on a smaller scale.

(d) Officers of the Medical Services.

Each carries the officer's haversack, the contents of which are extensive, including a number of surgical instruments such as probes, lancets, ligature forceps, cannulae, vaccinostyles and the like; a certain quantity of dressings; a tin plate case for tablets containing among others, pyramidone, veronal, acetylsalicylic acid, codein phosphate, tannalbin, opium, cocain chloride, atropinemannite and calomel; and also a box containing ampoules of, for example, caffein sodium salicylate, superarenine chloride and morphin hydrochloride.

(2) Of a Combatant Unit.

The medical equipment of battalions and regiments is identical. It comprises:

(a) Box No. 1. This is the "Battlebox" (Gefechtskasten) and is marked with two white strokes the form of a cross. The contents are miscellaneous but include much dressing material, anti-tetanus serum, medicaments and two 6-in atomizers containing ethyl chloride.

(b) Box No. 2. Medicaments of all types (Arzneimittelkasten).

(c) Box No. 3. Dressing Equipment. (Verbandmittel).

(d) Box No. 4. Supplementary box. This is like No. 1, but on a smaller scale.

(e) Box No. 5. Contains 280 flasks of tetanus anti-toxin 3000 units per c.c.

(f) Two medical haversacks containing medicaments and dressings rather on the scale of the M.O's haversack. Two empty rucksacks are also included, with blocks of labels for wounded and for sick.

(g) One set of equipment for fractures, including cardboard splints, metal wire splints and aluminum splints.

(h) One unit medical outfit - like an M.O's haversack.

(i) One set of oxygen apparatus - the flask contains 275 quarts of oxygen.

(j) Four stretchers.

(k) Twelve woolen blankets.

(l) One filter apparatus.

(m) Anti-vesicant, and gas protection caps for those with head wounds.

c. The Evacuation of Casualties

(1) Units under Divisional control. There are no medical units allotted to corps normally.

(a) Battalion aid station (Verwundetennetz) as close to the fighting line as possible. The station may or may not be under cover. Treatment is restricted to first aid. Occasional blood transfusions may be done. Evacuation is by stretcher bearer section of medical company.

(b) Ambulance Station (Wagenhalteplatz). This is established only if the ambulances cannot go forward to the battalion aid station.

(c) Field Clearing Station (Hauptverbandplatz) is established by the Medical company. It is intended for serious casualties requiring resuscitation, adjustment of dressings, splints etc, arrest of hemorrhage or blood transfusion before further evacuation. Emergency operations may be done here.

(d) Lightly Wounded Collecting Station (Leichtverwundetensammelplatz) for walking wounded and sitting or reclining cases requiring only minor treatment before evacuation. There is a skeleton staff from medical company. The remainder of the medical company is normally in reserve -- available to assist in handling a sudden rush of cases or assist in bombed areas, etc.

(e) Division Field Hospital (Feldlazarett). Capacity 200 beds. It is intended for the reception and retention of casualties who require urgent operation or resuscitation and a few days rest before further evacuation. It has a surgical team and is fully equipped to handle any casualty.

(2) Hospitals at Home or in Occupied Countries. (Reservelazaretten)

(a) Casualty Collecting Station (Krankensammelstelle). It is established by an Army ambulance unit at a railhead or other traffic center, normally and is for the retention of casualties awaiting evacuation. Only minor treatment is possible.

(b) Army Field Hospital (Kriegslazarett). For more serious casualties. Capacity 500 beds. Fully equipped hospital with all specialist departments.

(c) Army Field Hospital for lightly wounded cases. (Leichtkrankenkriegslazarett) Takes casualties who will be fit for duty in 3 or 4 weeks. Capacity 1,000 beds; fully equipped. Normally located in back areas of Army zone and away from all large towns.

(3) Capacity and time of erecting or dismantling of various units.

(a) Army Field Hospital. Capacity 500 beds, 24 hours to set up or dismantle. Set up by Army medical detachments.

(b) Army Field Hospital for slightly wounded cases. Capacity 1,000 beds. 24 hours to set up or dismantle. Set up by Army Field Hospital detachments.

(c) Field Hospital. Capacity 200 beds. 3 hours to set up or dismantle. Set up by Army Medical detachments.

(d) Casualty Collecting Station medical railhead. Capacity limited only by the available accommodation. 3 hours to set up or dismantle. Set up by motor transport ambulance company.

(e) Field Dressing Station. Unlimited capacity. 1/2 to 1 hour to set up or dismantle. Set up by Divisional medical company.

(f) Slightly Wounded Collection Station. Unlimited capacity. A few minutes to set up or dismantle.

(g) Motor Ambulance. Capacity of 4 lying and 10 sitting. Has four driving wheels and double differential for cross country performance.

(h) Hospital Train. The 2- or 3-axled coach train with heating coach has 358 lying capacity, and 385 sitting capacity without heating coach. The 4-axled corridor coach train with or without heating coach has a 364 lying capacity. 2 to 6 hours to set up or dismantle.

(i) Hospital Train for Slightly Wounded. 920 sitting capacity. 1 to 2 hours to set up or dismantle.

Good subject - very overlooked but steadily gaining popularity.... Speak with Nick and Michaela next time you see them at a show - They are a mine of good information and a source sometimes of equipment.

CheerPD

After over a year of trying to get one,a lovely lady in the village were i live made me one from a LW tropical shirt for £25.
SS Tropical Shirt.
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Looks fantastic