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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Post by croviking » 12 May 2008, 22:03

ImageImageThe obverse is the Croatian tricolour embroidered with silver and gold, reverse is golden-yellow brocade. Both sides are bordered on three edges with silver border containing tricolour flammules, the border being fimbriated from the field by golden embroidery. In the middle of obverse is the coat of arms, embroidered in gold, encircled with the motto, and in canton is the regimental number. On the reverse is the cipher AP (for Ante Pavelić) in red encircled with the motto. The inscription on the flag translated somewhat freely is (obverse) "By the Grace of God and the Deeds of Heroes," and (reverse) "For the Leader and Fatherland."

The text below is compiled from information kindly provided by Michael McAdams, University of San Francisco, and from the source quoted above.
The 369th Infantry Regiment, like the 369th, 373th, and 392nd were indeed German formations with Croatian troops (and was not Croatian Army Domobran or Waffen-SS). The Regiment was formed soon after the order to do so was given on July 2, 1941 as an all volunteer force which was sent to the Eastern Front as part of the 100th Mountain Division, where it was destroyed at Stalingrad. A flag may have been awarded to the unit in July 1941, although there seems to be no photographic evidence of the flag when the unit was reviewed by Poglavnik or by Croatian Field Marshal Slavko Kvaternik that Fall in Zagreb.
The flag above may have been issued or reissued to the "second" 369th Regiment (Grenadier Regiment) which was the "tradition bearer" of the first unit and which had "first" 369 Infantry Regiment soldiers who, usually wounded, had been evacuated before the German Sixth Army was

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Post by croviking » 12 May 2008, 23:57

ImageImageImageImageImagebadge of Italian-Croatian legion


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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Post by Marcus » 17 May 2008, 19:32

Please include information on the sources of the text and images you post in each post, thanks.

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Post by croviking » 18 May 2008, 22:10

ImageImage[]ImageImage Image Source:Hrvati-Junaci_Iztoka_--_Franjo_Bubanic

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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ImageImageImageImageImage Source: Hrvatski drzavni arhiv

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Post by Croat_RR » 04 Jun 2008, 13:34

Again, some pictures you posted are not from Russia.
Take a look at this topic :idea:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=82245

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Post by Croat_RR » 04 Jun 2008, 14:30

Havent seen these pictures on this topic so... 8-)
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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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ImageImageImageImageImage Source:THE CROATIAN AIR FORCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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Re: Croatian legion in Russia (picture)

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