Women In Panzer Uniform?? Comments Please!
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Women In Panzer Uniform?? Comments Please!
So what is the case with this lady? It doesn't look to me like shes just wearing her partners uniform, the fits to good and the belt and holster look to fit so what unit? and what role?
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I think the combat award badge on the tunic is proof that she's just borrowing the uniform.
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is that to say that combat reward badges were never awarded to women?
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Note that she has a holster for a gun which is remarkably small and not standard issue Walther. This suggests it is for a woman
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The tunic fastens on the 'male' side.
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One thing that did occur was the use of male uniforms to disguise Helferin while trying to flee or during the prisoner round ups/forced marches at the end of the war in the east.
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Who/whatever she is? to me there is a look of defience about her, a real Boudicca look going on. The photo doesnt have that casual air that you usually see in photos of women in male uniforms? just a shame there was no inscription on the reverse! but then thats the fun of photos the questions they raise that keep us researching!
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Only if she has been through three seperate panzer assaults. Which is how the PAB was earned.jimd211545s wrote:is that to say that combat reward badges were never awarded to women?
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I think I remember something in The Combat History of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503. If I remeber there was mention of a female in one of the tank crews. I will have to look it up. Might take me a while.
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Ok, after looking long and hard in the wrong book I picked up my copy of Tigers in Combat by Schneider and on page 45 I found this: 1 May 1944: 29 tanks operational. The battalion is attached directly to the 3. Panzer-Armee.
Oberleutnant Kriepahle is the new commander of the 2./schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501. His "radio operator" is a female Russian! The commander of the 3./schwere PanzerAbteilung 501 is reported missing in action.
I do not know how true this is, or where Schneider got the information. I would hope that he would not print questionable information, especialy something like this, without knowing it was 100% true. I would figure that is one of the first things in the book to be questioned.
Oberleutnant Kriepahle is the new commander of the 2./schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501. His "radio operator" is a female Russian! The commander of the 3./schwere PanzerAbteilung 501 is reported missing in action.
I do not know how true this is, or where Schneider got the information. I would hope that he would not print questionable information, especialy something like this, without knowing it was 100% true. I would figure that is one of the first things in the book to be questioned.
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Whilst it is good to let your imagination run riot once in a while, this is almost certainly a "girlfriend" photo.