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Wehrmacht Heer 17th cavalry regiment Oberfeldwebels Waffenrock

Branch: HEER
Product Code: gu784
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Wehrmacht Heer 17th cavalry regiment Oberfeldwebels Waffenrock. The shoulder straps show the remains of yellow threads and removed embroidery with the cypher “17”, instead of it metal cyphers have been attached. Tunic with traces of hard wear and damage from moths, there are traces of pretty professional restoring of two holes. The tunic is marked by mlitary depot on the liner (ink stamps): 2 / Kav. Rgt.17, which means the Second Squadron of the cavalry regiment 17.  The size of the tunic is approximately 48 (small). During the war, the regiment was re-organized into the armored reconnaissance regiment number 17 and has been added to 13 Wehrmacht army corps. The regiment took part in combats in Poland, France and in the Netherlands. The battle way of the regiment  at the beginning of the war in Russia was: Gomel - Kiev - Bryansk, the Western part of the Moscow region.  In 1942 Smolensk Region: Yukhnov, Spas-Demensk, further Belgorod, Don, Voronezh. 1943 Kursk, Kiev, Zhytomyr.  1944: Vinnitsa, Kovel, Brody.  At the end of the war the regiment fought in Thuringia and ended the war in Saxony.  

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Wehrmacht Heer 17th cavalry regiment Oberfeldwebels Waffenrock. The shoulder straps show the remains of yellow threads and removed embroidery with the cypher “17”, instead of it metal cyphers have been attached. Tunic with traces of hard wear and damage from moths, there are traces of pretty professional restoring of two holes. The tunic is marked by mlitary depot on the liner (ink stamps): 2 / Kav. Rgt.17, which means the Second Squadron of the cavalry regiment 17.  The size of the tunic is approximately 48 (small). During the war, the regiment was re-organized into the armored reconnaissance regiment number 17 and has been added to 13 Wehrmacht army corps. The regiment took part in combats in Poland, France and in the Netherlands. The battle way of the regiment  at the beginning of the war in Russia was: Gomel - Kiev - Bryansk, the Western part of the Moscow region.  In 1942 Smolensk Region: Yukhnov, Spas-Demensk, further Belgorod, Don, Voronezh. 1943 Kursk, Kiev, Zhytomyr.  1944: Vinnitsa, Kovel, Brody.  At the end of the war the regiment fought in Thuringia and ended the war in Saxony.  

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