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Old 2nd January 2008, 03:53
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Re: 1941 Hungarian Air Force Tunic Tag help?

OK,

Here are pics of the tunic with the tag. Let me start off by saying I started by purchasing this set (hat + tunic) to have an Hungarian NCO flight uniform. Some of the items on the set were fake, some were real but inaccurate. I am trying to restore what I can. I will not what I think is real or not, added or not as I go.

Let's start with the overall tunic. A standard NCO tunic in army color ranked to a Sgt. There was a wing on the right pocket but it was an NCO cap badge in silver stitched to make the wings straight vs. curved. The thing is, there was no NCO silver flight badge. There was only one pilot badge, in gold, and both officers and NCOs wore the same wing. Only their curved wing cap badges were gold or silver.



Next is the collars. When I bought the tunic, it had one collar device. I have since purchased a pair and sewn them on:








Now the ribbons. These came with the tunic. I think they are original to the period but not to the tunic based on the stitching:










Here is a shot of the right pocket where I removed the erroneous wing. There are two loops, but for what:



One final shot:

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