Unit ID please

[Rich Payne]

Those two N.C.O.s do have a hard and lean look compared with the others. They do all look fairly relaxed considering they were being attacked from east and west.

The date on the photograph may not be completely correct. It could have been annotated much later, for instance by someone sorting out their memories of twenty years before.

When did the vehicles change to the sand coloured base ? This vehicle is certainly carrying the later style.

[chipmunk wallah]

43 is generally acepted as the start of the sand coloured base for the germans ,the pic is definatly no earlier. Now that someone pointed out the place name as being in Poland I do see that the building has a "Polish" feel to it,so Im pretty sure the writting is contempory.
Even if I never get to the bottom of the picture I do like it,it has a very Human,everday feel to it with a touch of lads day out to the seaside too,and the faces are a great bunch,all of germany seems there,if that makes sense?

[dbf]

Going by gut reaction alone, I would think the notation of date is contemporary to the photo...

If I was putting annotations on a photo retrospectively, and I have done recently, I'd be hard-pushed to remember the month, let alone the day of the month. Along the lines of 'oh yeah that was '44 and maybe such-and-such a month.' It just seems too specific to me for it to be a recovered memory. For example, can you remember the exact date you left school, or moved house?

Unless, it was a birthday or an anniversary; no come to think of it, that doesn't apply to most guys either !!!!

Just a thought to throw in the mix.
And no, I have no idea about vehicles, uniforms or paintjobs. Leave that up to you experts.

Diane

[chipmunk wallah]

"can you remember the exact date you left school, "
lol,Im hard pushed to remember what year sometime in the early 90s maybe ....