German WWII M36 Pattern Panzer Tunic, 17th Panzer Regiment

German WWII M36 Pattern Panzer Tunic, 17th Panzer Regiment. Very Collectable nice early Panzer Tunic, very long construction, two upper patch pockets with flaps, two lower hidden pockets with angled flaps. Early style buttons, deep barrel cuffs, dark green collar. The whole front two edges of the tunic are piped in pink waffenfarbe a beautiful set of dark green centred stitch on silk piped shoulder boards are fitted with embroidered to the centre a gothic P over the number 17. Matching NCO’s lace to the collar with a set of the parade style silver on pink collar patches fitted, some stitches loose to the right hand collar patch as the tunic is viewed. A nice unusual nco breast eagle fitted being very finely machine embroidered in a lightweight silver wire on a dark green background. The tunic has a Bavarian tailors label to the interior lining, the tunic is fully lined, the lining material has had some minor repairs. To the inside pocket the original owners name label of Menna with the initial R who belonged to the 2nd company PZ ABW ABT 17 which matches the tunic shoulder boards exactly. Minor moth damage to the reverse side of the dark green collar and left cuff. Some seams slightly open but otherwise excellent condition well service used early Panzer Tunic.
The 17th Panzer Division (German: 17. Panzer-Division) was a formation of the Wehrmacht in World War II. It was formed in November 1940 from the 27th Infantry Division. It took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and in the winter of 1941–42 participated in the Battle of Moscow. In November 1942, the division was sent to the southern sector of the Eastern Front where it participated in Operation Winter Storm, the failed attempt to relieve the surrounded troops at Stalingrad. The division was held in reserve during the Battle of Kursk in 1943, and thereafter retreated through Ukraine and Poland, before ending the war in Czechoslovakia

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