File:ONI JAN 1 Uniforms and Insignia Page 028 German Air Force Luftwaffe WW2 Tropical and summer uniforms. Officers, men. Pith and steel helmets, field caps, national emblem, Flak troops, linen boots, etc Aug. 1943 Field recognition. No copy.jpg

• Sergeant, Traffic Control. Unteroffizier. Luftwaffe tropical blouse has a different cut and one less button than Army's.
  
• Tropical helmet; Steel helmet; National colors on right side of helmets; National emblem on left side of helmet.
  
• Field cap; National emblem as worn on right breast of shirts, and on caps; Field cap button [Kokarde]; visored field cap.
  

Luftwaffe tropical and summer uniforms differ in varying degrees of detail frm those issued by the German Army. These details should be sufficient to establish basic identification in the absence of other material. Note that Luftwaffe tropical materials are of an orange or yellow tinge, in contrast to the khaki or olive shades of the German Army's tropical uniforms.

Illustrated under parachutists are the tropical motor vehicle coat, and the long Luftwaffe trousers with thigh pocket and ankle straps. These trousers bag noticeably, and are characteristic of Luftwaffe troops. Because these uniforms have been frequently worn by parachutists, both coat and trousers are illustrated on the parachutist pages. The trousers are also widely used by Flak crews.

Page (028) from "JAN #1 a joint Army and Navy publication UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA prepared by the Military Intelligence Service and the Division of Naval Intelligence", a recognition manual released by the US War Departement during World War II for field use by the American fighting forces.

This cumulative military manual was a "Joint Army-Navy" ("JAN") publication illustrating uniforms and insignia of the navies, armies and air forces of Japan, Nazi Germany (Heer/German Army, Kriegsmarine/German Navy, Luftwaffe/German Air Force, Waffen-SS/German Armed Elite Guard), Facist Italy, occupied France and the Netherlands (parts of their navies were based in Western Allied countries), neutral Facist Spain and Portugal, and Allied Turkey. The collection of plates was published as a US Government unclassified public document 1943-44, in the format of a pocket-sized loose-leaf string-tied binder allowing for additional pages and corrections. Today it is in the public domain without any known copyright restrictions.

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