My grandfather`s field jacket - can anybody help ?

[Peabird]

Hello !

I recently found my grandfather`s field jacket forgotten in a bag...
My grandfather has died already, so i cannot ask him about it.

Regarding the pictures, can you tell me anything about it ?

I know that he first applied to the Luftwaffe and after a year he has been transferd and stationed in Italy and was shipped to join the Afrikakorps, but was sunk by torpedoshots while getting ther.
After that he was transfered to Russia...
Is it a late jacket or something connected to the Afrikakorps ?

http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL903/42 ... 997117.jpg

this pic matches the real colours best:
http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL903/42 ... 997123.jpg

some details:
http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL903/42 ... 997120.jpg

http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL903/42 ... 997118.jpg

There are no further printings inside the jacket...
The jacket´s fabric is not wool.


Thank you very much.

Greetings from Germany,
Peabird

[Paddy Keating]

It's a standard denim tropical-issue field jacket. The Heer breast eagle is a mid-war type normally found on the field-grey jackets but often seen on tropical jackets issued to soldiers in the Mediterranean theatre of operations in 1943 and 1944.

PK

[Willhelm Gruber II]

i cannot see properly in the first pic. but i think it has "box" pockets and scalloped pocket flaps if so it should be an M40 model if the pocket flaps are straight and with out "box's" it should be an m43 model, the Breast eagle is a mid war as Paddy said