Lieutenant
in flight uniform: He wears "sobre el uniforme la cazadora de
moutón, de fabricación búlgara reglamentaria de la Luftwaffe",
with the emblem of the spanish volunteers an the right arm below his badge of rank.
You can also see the compass model AK-39. The nutbrown leather belt with the holster for the "Browning 7'65 mm" is also part of this uniform. The Lieutenant wears he thermo flight trousers and the heated, "electric", flight boots, made of black leather. The cap on this picture is the sommer model LKP-101. Attached to it, you can see te anti-blinding glasses model "Nitsche & Günther".
The gloves are one of a certain number of allowed models. This one are made of the same material as the boots: black leather.
The breathing mask was made of brown rubber and leather.
An officer in walking-out uniform: He wears the peaked cap, decorated with the eagle of the Luftwaffe
and the german cockade. The uniform jacket is made of gabardine. The collar
is opened to the second button and shows the collar patches on yellow-orange ground. The
corresponding epaulettes are coloured the same.
Attached above the right breast pocket is the german nationality emblem - the "Flying Eagle" - and
above that, the pilots badge of the spanish airforce, Mod. 1940.
This pilot is quite decorated: You can see the ribbon of the "Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse",
attached at the stipulated position - the second button hole. At the left breast pocket
you can see the "Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse". Below his one, the pilots badge of the german Luftwaffe
ist shown. Above this pocket, the Frontflugspange of the Luftwaffe is shown. It was awarded in
bronze, for surviving more than twenty flights above enemy territory or dogfights.
On the right sleeve the emblem of the spanish volunteers is attached.
This "waiting" spanish flight officer is reading the
very popular magazin "The Eagle" ("Der Adler"). This newspaper was
published by the Luftwaffe and was printed in many languages, in spanish too, of course.
This pilot wears the same trousers, boots and cap, mentioned above.
The special item on his picture is the short flight jacket in an equal colour to the walking-out uniform, but from less quality. Here the rank insignias, made of aluminum piping, are sewn onto a felt basis in weapons colour.
The great number of blue-grey buttons to close the jacket are hidden behind a lapel, that prevented them to get tangled up with the flight instruments. The white silk scarf hides the blue, falangelistic shirt, that the spanish pilots prefered to wear during the flights.
 |
 |
 |
Madrid, 28´th August 2000