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Here is your chance to pick up a gorgeous Fallschirmjäger fliegerblouse & M43 cap. These two pieces came back together and I would like to sell them as such. The M43 is a true officer’s type complete with piped crown and is most likely a Clemens Wagner piece. This privately tailored blouse is extremely sharp and looks wonderful on display. There is an internal loop sewn into the liner system for a dagger hanger clip. The awards, belt & buckle are not included and were used for photographic purposes only.
In the 1930s Hermann Göring, after having observed Soviet airborne infantry maneuvers, became committed to the creation of Germany’s airborne infantry. By 1935, Göring created the first dedicated airborne regiment. The unit was incorporated into the newly formed Luftwaffe later that year and training commenced. Göring also ordered that a group of volunteers be drawn for parachute training. Germany’s parachute branch was officially inaugurated in 1936 with a call for recruits for a parachute training school. The school was open to Luftwaffe personnel, who were required to successfully complete six jumps in order to receive the Luftwaffe parachutist’s badge.
During World War II, the Luftwaffe raised a variety of Fallschirmjäger units. Fallschirmjäger participated in the occupation of Norway and Denmark and in the battles of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. They also took part in the Balkans Campaign, Battle of Crete, the Italian Campaign, and on both the Eastern Front and later the Western Front would follow. They came to be known as the “green devils” by the Allied forces they fought against. The word Fallschirmjäger is from the German Fallschirm, “parachute”, and Jäger, literally ‘hunter,’ which in this context, refers to light infantry.
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