"Division Azul" Topic
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PMC317 | 28 Jun 2014 5:33 p.m. PST |
Over on my blog, I've been starting to build up Warlord Game's plastic Blitzkrieg Infantry Germans as Division Azul Spaniards to face my Plastic Soldier Company Soviet rifle platoon in games of Chain of Command. So far so straightforwards. But
there seems to be a fairly fixed idea that the men of the 250. Infanterie Div. preferred to wear their blue shirts with the collars out, over the collars of their tunics (this crops up in lots of drawings and the like); but I can't find any definitive evidence through my google-fu or the Osprey that this was the case for more than a few soldiers. And then there's the jackboots – officially the Blue Division never got any, but there's no shortage of photos showing blueshirts wearing jackboots instead of the ankle boots they were issued with. So should I leave my men as is, and just paint on the ESPANA patches and helmet decals, or should I green stuff a few shirt collars and ankle boots? Oh, I also unearthed an interesting graphic novel. Check my blog out for more! |
tuscaloosa | 28 Jun 2014 5:41 p.m. PST |
Your posting above says the opposite of your blog as far as the Blue Division getting ankle boots. |
PMC317 | 28 Jun 2014 5:50 p.m. PST |
Oh yes! Woops. Slip of the brain; what I meant to say was that they never got any jackboots
edited now! |
Richard Baber | 28 Jun 2014 11:19 p.m. PST |
PMC317 I`ve spent yrs researching the Spanish army, Rif Wars and Blue Division, I hope this helps - The Spanish were all volunteers from a country not governed by the Germans so not quite subject to the same regulations as other ethnic volunteers. They were kitted out exactly like any 1941/42 German infantry division. So if German infantry circa 1941/42 had marching (Jack) boots, then so did the Spanish. As ankle boots were issued to regular German units, so it would be for the Spanish. However, unlike other ethnic units of the German Army, the Spanish were no commanded by German officers, so they took liberties with their uniform - Spanish medals (ribbons), rank badges and other odd bits began to appear very quickly. The Spanish wore the Flange yoke & arrow belt buckle (not the God is with us) German one. The Spanish military fashion was to wear the shirt collar outside over the jacket collar, this is a matter of choice, not regulation. It should be noted this does not need to be the "blue" one from where the division got its nick-name, but could also be a sand coloured khaki (Spanish Army) or Olive green (La Legion) shirt. |
dualer | 29 Jun 2014 2:34 a.m. PST |
I'm looking at Bueno's book on the Division Azul and the colour plates show both marching boots and boots with gaiters. Richard is quite right that the Spanish volunteers quickly put their own stamp on their Wehrmacht issue uniforms and wore their Spanish medals and insignia with pride, collars out! Franco amalgamated the Falange and Carlist factions and ordered the blue shirt and boina roja (red beret) to be worn together, something that caused a lot of friction between the two. |
blacksmith | 29 Jun 2014 3:20 a.m. PST |
Liki said above, they basically wear German equipment with a minor Spanish customization :) I painted mine like this: link
Cheers, |
Legion 4 | 29 Jun 2014 8:57 a.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 29 Jun 2014 10:32 p.m. PST |
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