Belt & buckle for P-08 - Ranks issued to

[John Winter]

Officers generally wore the open faced two prong buckle with keeper and leather belt. These are still quite common and reasonably priced. In fact, Helmut Weitze has an excellent selection on his website. Some authors claim that lower-ranking officers were required to wear the regulation enlisted belt and and buckle in combat after 1941 and cite an official regulation to that affect. Any pix out there? My only definately officer issue belt is a web one of the tropical pattern with leather reinforcement and a two-piece round buckle dated 1941. I've kept it because I've only seen a figurative handful of this type over the past fifty years.