Germany, Heer. An EM/NCO’s M43 Field Cap, Vienna-Made certificate_of_authenticity and retains an interwar/Third Reich-period

and retains an interwar/Third Reich-period brown leather chinstrap which culminates in eight fingers

overlaid by a pair of crossed shovels and a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Carlson was born in 1911

A very well-preserved Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross/DRK) Enlisted ranks hewer

when he would have been age 48

Germany, Heer. An EM/NCO’s M43 Field Cap, Vienna-Made certificate_of_authenticity and retains an interwar/Third Reich-period(Heer Einheitsfeldmtze M43 fr Mannschaften). A Heer EM NCOs M43 field cap, constructed of field grey wool. The cap is fully surrounded by fold down side panels, scalloped toward the front, providing optional ear and neck protection to the wearer. When not in use, the panels roll up and secure in position with two pebbled aluminum buttons which emanate from the right panel and meet an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left. The crown is