RKKF- anybody else?

[3apkka]

just wondering if rthere is anybody else out there doing Red Navy impressions?

[Konstantin]

I picked up a jumper and wool trousers off ebay. Had a couple of Baltic fleet donald ducks that a collector buddy gave me years ago. Probably will get a reefer jacket in the near future. Been busy tracking down 117th stuff right now, so that is on the back burners.

Nikolai in our unit has the same outfit. Adam has a hat and pea coat.

We just kinda wear it for fun. But we have talked about putting a little more serious work into it. It's just an early war kinda thing. LOL

-dave
416th

[talleman1]

I have been doing Naval Infantry for awhile and I have a yahoo group RussianNAVALInfantry of you need info.

Thomas-95th Rifles

[vsahdneek]

Here's a question for ye swabbies of the Red Navy!

a buddy of mine wondered if different units were assigned to wear the black striped shirt
as opposed to the blue striped shirt under their tunics.... was one navy and the other airborne, or naval infantry? he wondered who should be wearing which color, or didn't it matter?....

Spaceba in advance!

Vlad V.

[crazydima]

Tovarischi,

The colors did matter inpost war Soviet Military. Light blue for VDV, dark blue for navy and Green for border guards, etc.

However, during the GPW I am not aware of the colors of blue or black stripes on a telnyashka having any particular designation for a branch.

A few of the articles written regarding Soviet forces allude to the dark blue and white stripe being attributed to the navy of the GPW and that a light blue striped shirt was later adopted by the VDV(airborne).

operationflashpoint.filefront.com/news/Red_Hammer_Studios_Addons_An_Explanation;30825

This is an excerpt from the following website:
Marks of elite formations, besides the obvious insignias, are things such as the Telnyashka striped undershirt. It was originally a Naval item of wear, consisting of dark blue horizontal stripes on a white background, where the blue represented the ocean's water and the white the foam of the white-cap waves, unless you were part of a Northern Fleet in which case the white was the ice. When the Navy re-trained some personnel to form Naval Infantry detatchments, they fought in their Telnyashkas (Russian Plural: Telnyashkii) underneath their Army uniforms, if they didn't fight in their Naval uniforms.
When the VDV were being formed up in WWII, in order to give the troops courage and confidence in their abilities, it was ordered that they would wear the Telnyashka as well. The VDV eventually managed to distinguish themselves sufficiently that the Naval Infantry and Navy stopped resenting this, which was also helped when they switched to a Light Blue and White pattern, insteady of the Navy Blue. For the VDV, the blue and white is the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds.

Several variations of Telnyashkii exist, including black-striped and even a red-striped version. These seem to have faded from use.


Perhaps someone will be able to provide further information and sources to help clear this up.

Sincerely,

Dima

[vsahdneek]

Spaceba for the info Dima!

Vlad