English: German Navy (Wehrmacht Kriegsmarine). Field gray uniform. Officers and men of Naval Artillery (Marine Küsten Batterie). Lieutenant (
Oberleutnant zur See); Officer's cap; Cap device ; Button; Shoulder device (pip,
Stern) used to denote rank; Chief petty officer (
Stabsfeldwebel); Overseas cap for petty officers 2nd class and below; National emblem (
Wehrmacht's German imperial eagle in yellow,
Hoheitsabzeichen,
Reichsadler,
Kriegsmarineadler,
Brustadler); Belt buckle (with Prussian slogan
Gott mit uns) worn with black belts by warrant and petty officers. Commissioned officers wear brown leather belts with plain buckle; Collar patch (
Litzen); Seaman, 2nd class (
Gefreiter). February 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.