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11-28-2006, 12:59 PM | #1 |
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overcoat branch insignia
I need your advice and help again, i cant identify the army branch of this major overcoat.
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11-28-2006, 01:08 PM | #2 |
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small pic
but I think it looks like railroad troops.
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11-28-2006, 01:56 PM | #3 |
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i woudl have to agree, it is railroad troops
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Perhaps a translating difference, but I always heard these called "motor transport" insignia.
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11-28-2006, 02:32 PM | #5 |
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Motor Transport troops is correct.
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11-28-2006, 04:41 PM | #6 |
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Really?
i always heard of these as being railway and that the motor shooting/transport troops had the same insignia as regular army (the laurel wreaths in a horseshoe)
well, thanks for teaching me something new guys!
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11-28-2006, 07:12 PM | #7 |
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Railroad
Yes, the wheels show its motor transport; rail troops had the corssed engineering insignia, etc.
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11-29-2006, 09:17 AM | #8 |
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I assume motor transport were the truck-driving folk, etc. I too have heard the star-in-laurel-wreath referred to as "motor-shootng troops" and the like. I guess "mechanized infantry" might be a better translation, but perhaps misleading, because I think all infantry (whether motorized or not) wore the same insigna.
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11-29-2006, 09:26 AM | #9 |
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Don't confuse 'Motor-Transport Troops' (the guys driving trucks) with 'Motor-Rifle Troops ( the guys we would call infantry). DD
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To eliminate any confusion: motor transport (guys driving trucks) on the right, infantry (guys with guns) on the left.
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