File:ONI JAN 1 Uniforms and Insignia Page 042 German Armed Elite Guard Waffen-SS WW2 Field, service dress uniforms NCOs, EM. Caps, helmet, buckle, emblem, Death's head Totenkopf, etc. Jan 1944 Field recognition.No copyright.jpg

• Private (SS-Schütze or SS-grenadier). Field dress (SS blouse [tunic])
• SS type of field cap [Feldmütze]
• Embroidered Death's head is often worn on caps [Totenkopf, skull and crossbones]
• National emblem for SS [SS Hoheitszeichen] on caps and the upper left sleeve of blouses and overcoats [stylized Reichsadler with swastika and pointy wings]
• Service cap (artillery)
• SS belt buckle with the inscription Meine Ehre heißt Treue
• Army-type field cap. Signal troops (color of arm may be omitted)
• Metal Death's head often worn on field caps (skull badge with round background plate RZM/SS maker 57 20mm Ref 14-5a)
• Army steel helmet [Stahlhelm]with SS emblem on the right side and Nazi Party swastika insignia on the left
• Camouflage cover for steel helmet
• 1st sergeant (Hauptscharführer). Artillery. War service dress. Army field blouse. Later models may lack pocket pleats
• The Waffen-SS no longer wear black uniforms. At the present, the only special Waffen-SS uniforms are the SS blouse and field caps, and a gray uniform (like that of the General SS) worn on parade by certain units; otherwise uniforms are in Army styles with SS insignia. Considerable variation occurs in the use of uniforms and application of insignia. January 1944.
  

Page (042) 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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