Germany, Heer. A Tropical Wehrmacht Signal Troops EM/NCO’s Blouse Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic tourniquets

tourniquets

the obverse with a machine-embroidered golden-yellow BeVo-style DAF insignia above oak leaves

dated January 27

maker marked on inside lid

dated to Berlin on November 2

Germany, Heer. A Tropical Wehrmacht Signal Troops EM/NCO’s Blouse Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic tourniquets(Wehrmacht Tropenbluse). An example of a tropical blouse belonging to Wehrmacht Signal Troops personnel, as worn in the entire Mediterranean theater of war, including Africa and Southern Italy. The shirt is constructed of olive drab coloured cotton twill, featuring a traditional turned down collar that transitions into breast flaps. Each flap has a horizontal slit breast pocket and a horizontal slit waist pocket, all secured shut via a scalloped flap