WS371 HJSS Kneeling Signaller First Legion-Stalingrad Germans NOR014 Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Laying

NOR014 Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Laying Firing MP40

the relatively sizable brim kept away the rain substantially better than the single bill of the traditional kepi

After his China service he would transfer to the Army Air Corps and eventually the US Air Force where he remained until his retirement in 1968 as a Brigadier General

President Roosevelt secretly authorized 100 pilots (enough to man at least 3 squadrons) and almost 200 other ground crew personnel to be recruited alongwith approving the sale of 100 Curtiss P40’s

The American flag scheme was painted onto the SPAD XIII flown by Captain Reed Chambers

WS371 HJSS Kneeling Signaller First Legion-Stalingrad Germans NOR014 Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier LayingCrouching down beside his field telephone this signaller receives the latest battlefield information or perhaps instructions from a superior.