English: German Army (Wehrmacht Heer). Mountain uniforms (Gebirgsjäger). Officer and men. 2nd Lieutenant (
Leutnant) Signal Troops ; Service cap device (
Edelweiss); Mountain cap device (
Edelweiss); Mountain cap all ranks (peaked ski field cap); Mountain guide badge (
Heeresbergführer) worn on left breast; Mountain shoe/boot; Mountain puttees (affect appearance of uniform radically if rolled high); Mountain service caps for officers and for enlisted men; Captain (
Hauptmann) in white jacket reversible so that jacket colour may vary according to aera. June 1943.
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"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.