File:WW2 German Airforce Wehrmacht Luftwaffe Officer's visor cap Schirmmütze Insignia Eagle-and-swastika Hoheitszeichen Luftwaffeadler National cockade Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad Local war museum Norway 2021-06-20 IMG 5827.jpg

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English: Close-up of the front of a visor cap (German: Schirmmütze) of the Wehrmacht Luftwaffe, the Air Force of Nazi Germany.
  • Cap insignia (Mützenabzeichen):
    • Luftwaffeadler ('Luftwaffe eagle'), the Luftwaffe version of the national Third Reich eagle-and-swastika emblem adopted as national and military coat of arms from the Nazi Party emblem based on the German Reichsadler imperial eagle: called Hoheitszeichen ('national emblem'), Mützenadler ('cap eagle') or Wehrmachtsadler ('eagle of the armed forces')
    • National tri-colour cockade/roundel (Kokarde) and stylized oak leaf wreath and Luftwaffe wings device (Mützenkranz mit Schwinge, Schwingen, Mützenanstecker, Abzeichen, Metallabzeichen)
  • Piping (Paspel, Paspelierung, trim) along the edges of the cap band and crown in corps colour of the Luftwaffe (Waffenfarbe der Luftwaffe)
  • Wehrmacht EM/NCO visor cap chin strap
Photo from the Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad, a local World War II museum in Rakkestad, Norway, exhibiting 4000 items related to the German occupation of Norway 1940 – 1945, Norwegian, German, and Allied military forces, the Norwegian resistance movement and everyday life during the war, etc.
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