Correct uniforms for eastern front

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Correct uniforms for eastern front

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I am building a tiger 1 late and want to represent tank 322 of the 507th fighting the Russian in the east.
My question is what would the crew be wearing then. I assume not cammo/ splinter etc , as that was SS ? would it have been the black panzer wrap?
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Re: Correct uniforms for eastern front

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sPz-Abt 507
Formed Sep 1943, first fought on the Eastern Front in defense of Tarnpol, Vitebsk and the Narev River front in Jan 1944. Served there until Feb 1945. Refitted with King Tigers while still in line he fought in the defense of Czechoslovakia in the final months of the war where he lost all of his Tigers in battle.
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I would say Black uniforms?
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Lieutenant:
The tank officer, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, wears the special black cloth uniform reserved for personnel serving in fully enclosed armored vehicles. In the buttonhole appears the ribbon of the Iron Cross 2nd class and on the chest, from left to right, the insignia of the armored vehicles of the Condor Legion, the Iron Cross 1st class and the insignia of the wounded.
Sergent, 1942
La version feldgrau de la tenue spéciale des blindés est adoptée en 1940 à l’usage des équipages de canon automoteurs mais plus tard dans la guerre, les personnels des divisions de panzergrenadiere de nouvelle formation en seront aussi dotés. Cet uniforme est porté avec une variété de pattes de collet selon l’unité. Les décorations sont la Croix de fer de 1ere et 2eme classe, l’insigne général d’assaut et l’insigne des blessés.
Caporal :
Gefreiter Friedhelm Ollenschläger wears the wartime outing dress of armored troops. Before the war, this black uniform was worn only for service on board craft, the outing dress being feldgrau.
Soldier, Waffen SS, 1944
At the start of the war in Russia, tank crews used various types of suits, often taken from stocks of captured effects. In September 1941, a one-piece SS camouflaged fabric suit was put into service, which was impractical, but it was not until January 1944 that the camouflaged canvas version of the two-piece gear crew uniform began to be distributed. shielded. On the shoulder straps piped in pink (the distinctive color of armored vehicles), the man wears the monogram LAH (Leibstandardte Adolf Hitler), regimental insignia, then divisional.
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Jofaur, thanks for the information. I was thinking it would be the black uniform, but as it was near the end of the war , perhaps some cammo appeared that seems to be the as though. Cheers


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