MNZS: Wiking

[Kocjo]

Gille, May '44, Ostfront










Dorr, Kowel, 23.5.'44




Kowel:























Regards,
Kocjo

[heinz kling]

Btw, who's that Obersturmführer behind Gille and Hack?

[Wiking5th]

Absolutely fantastic !! 25 pics of my personal favorite SS Division. I never have seen any of these before. If you have any more I hope you post them also. This part of the forum is like an early Christmas present! Do you have any captions that go with the photos?
Thank You,
Wiking5th

[Chris]

Magnificent job Kocjo!

Truly an excellent collection of photographs you have posted on these pages. Will check this thread regularly, should you have time to post any more. Thanx

One thing relating to this (Wiking) thread:
http://www.feldgrau.net/images/mnzs_685 ... 6616_8.jpg, is from the photoseries of the 12. SS-HJ, during the fighting around Caen 1944.

All the best
Chris

[Ch_Höltge]

Nice fotos Kocjo
but i agree with Chris the 5. foto is from the HJ in
the Normandie.

greetings
Christian

[Kocjo]

Thanks a lot for your info on this photo!

This is the main reason, why I'm posting these photos here - to learn something new about them.

Thanks again,
Kocjo

[Roger Griffiths]

Brilliant pix. The two Panther, one 212 not 5SS PD Wiking. Coy No's. 5 to 8. Don't know who they are yet. Agree with comments by others on 12SS PD HJ.

Roger

[Mirko B]

Hi
Nice picture indeed ,but i must say ,i doubt many of them being Wiking Div. Remember Wiking only recieved Panther A and D and was never replaced with any "G" model as shown on some pictures. One pictures shows acctually Panzer IV from I.SS.Pz.korps (LAH or HJ) in Gran brückenkopf (Hungary) in February 1945.
Otherwise nice pictures, but as a ....Wiking fan..hahaha...i doubt many of them being Wiking and some of them i am 100% sure :not Wiking.
But that does NOT do the picture less interesting - acctually they are very interesting indeed and thanks to Kocjo
regards Mirko

[Marko]

6th pic. - 2 Panthers (G version) with about 100 soldiers aboard - (mnzs_6853_8.jpg) I seem to remember seeing a similar one on Ebay some time ago and it was claimed to have been taken in Hungary 1944, maybe 23.Pz.Div?
11th pic. (mnzs_6822_13) - a HJ Panther, see the mark above the headlight.
13th pic. (mnzs_6003_4) - this Ostuf. really look familar, I just can't put a name to the face.
15th pic. (mnzs_6507_7) - Gille, Becker (KC w. OL holder and Kdr. of 3.SS-Pz.Div.), Swientek (KC holder and Kdr. SS-Pz.AR 3) - check out the Demjansk shield.

Cheers
Marko

[MD650]

Very nice pics....

:)

[BrianC]

Excellent Pictures, rarely do we see such good quality pictures, should anyone have any of Das Reich i would love to see them, cheers.
Brian.

[Kocjo]

Thanks again for comments and info on the photos!

Regards,
Kocjo

[Kocjo]

Nice fotos Kocjo
but i agree with Chris the 5. foto is from the HJ in
the Normandie.

greetings
Christian

I have re-posted the photo in a new thread.

Thanks again for your corrections and info on the photo,
Kocjo

[Kocjo]

For these photo I'm pretty sure, that is Wiking or Nordland, but I would say Wiking.

[Barry Crook]

I have to agree with the guys above, the logo above the headlight looks more like 12.SS Pz Div:

HJ Logo:
http://images.google.com.au/images?q=tb ... w/12ss.JPG

Wiking logo:
http://images.google.com.au/images?q=tb ... 01/5ss.jpg

If it is true, then its the first HJ Panther with a unit emblem many of us will have seen, so it is a remarkable photo Kocjo.

Baz