[SIZE=10pt]Made a discovery yesterday. A buddy of mine was wearing what we here in Minnesota call a "grumpy old man hat" and it reminded me of the fleece hat from some of my dads old stuff. I looked in that old hat and found a label “1942”. Did some Google work and found that it is a German Luftwaffe winter hat. I can see where the stitches were that held on the winged insignia. My dad wouldn’t have ripped the insignia off if he wasn’t wearing [/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] it [/SIZE](he brought back lots of unaltered souvenirs) [SIZE=10pt]so I think he probably wore this 70 years ago in the Battle of the Bulge. I had never thought this was a WWII thing, just thought maybe it was something from one of his Canada trips.[/SIZE] [SIZE=10pt]BTW, test wore it outside where it’s -3 f[/SIZE]ahrenheit[SIZE=10pt] today and it is WARM.[/SIZE] View attachment 21826 Me trying on the hat. View attachment 21827 What it probably looked like before the insignia was removed. View attachment 21828 Some other GI's wearing similar German gear posing in front of a Stug.