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The crews of WWII German armored cars in recon units, did they use the yellow/cavalry waffenfarbe piping, or the pink piping of panzer crews? Particularly in North Africa for a SdKfz 231/232.
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Motorised Recon units used a copper brown colour.
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Ahhhh, there's a new one for me. Many thanks Bish.
My pleasure. The list of colours is a bit longer than I think many realise. According to my main reference, there are 17 colours.
Well, there is more to an army than the combat arms. All the support elements have their own piping colors... And of course you have sub branch colors.
Yep, and the Germans never liked to make things easy.
Yeah just look at their multi syllable descriptive words. Everything with precision. Panzerkampwagen. Sonderkraftfahrzeug. ;) good thing that I took all those years of German.
To be fair, the US Army has abut as many Branch colors.
stikpusher Yeah just look at their multi syllable descriptive words. Everything with precision. Panzerkampwagen. Sonderkraftfahrzeug. ;) good thing that I took all those years of German.
Ye, gets a bit baffling at times doesn't. It wasn't until I was in my battalions Anti Tank Platoon and we had to do AFV recognition that I realised every nation has a system and the German one started to make more sense to me.
Yes, copper brown is the safe choice for the period in question, though research seems to have uncovered some exceptions - not surprising!
Compared to my own book sources, I find some conflicting dates from a fairly detailed response found here, but you get the idea:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47212/thread/1342038452/from+one+expert+to+another+about+German+Piping+%28branch%29+color
I will end with this publication:
Inside there is an example of a recon EM tunic shoulder strap with golden yellow. It is described as rarely seen, and from very early in the campaign.
regards,
Jack
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