Recent Photo Album Purchases-Can anyone help? (1 Viewer)

[Gideon]

Hi all,

I recently went a little nuts and picked up a fairly large album with some interesting subject matter.

Can anyone tell me what units these are?

Album 1

Album 2

 

[Wraith]

The capitol G in the circle on some of the vehicles apparently is a vehicle marking for 5.Fliegerdivision. Can't find much on them, but a good source of reference for German markings / emblems can be found at:

www.wwiidaybyday.com

Happy hunting

Simon

 

[Gideon]

Thanks Simon. Very much appreciated.

 

[DMNamiot]

Hi Gideon,

Those are some really great photos from the eastern front. When you get the books it would be great if you could scan some of the photos in and post them here so we could take a closer look. Not being well versed on the Luftwaffe field divisions I am still looking for information that will help you. I did notice that the bulk of the vehicle license plates had the prefix of WL which would be from wherever their home base was. I know there are places on the web where you can look up that information and then you could use that to cross reference with the units list they have on wikipedia. Thats should give you somewhere to begin the quest for information. I will see if I can cross reference the upside down acorn that is also on a few of the vehicles.
Sorry I dont have more yet. Keep us posted on this neat project.

Dave

 

[Louis Badolato]

Gid,

Really amazing, poignient photographs (especially the shots of the raggamuffin children). You really bought yourself a treasure.

Regards,

Louis

 

[Gideon]

Now wouldn't it be cool, if and when I post scans, if Andy decided to make an opel supply truck based on some of the photos? Hmmm.

 

[OzDigger]

As 5.Fliegerdivision was mainly based in Norway I suspect that is where most of the pics were taken. Initially I thought the two signs in one of the pictures pointed to towns, but the true translations from German are:

Nachschub = Supply, Schlitten = Sled or sledge, and Veg = Way, road or track.

An overturned horse drawn sled being the main feature in that picture, so I guess they were on the right track at least

 

[Gideon]

The photo album arrived and is really very interesting. There was a lot in there not shown on the site - very interesting stuff.

I will try to do a scan of the pages and make them available to everyone here.