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Nice finds, Skipper!

 

And a British bottle with leather strap made by Clarke & Co, London, in 1941. It was a first hand attic find, so I had to clean it get rid of the vert de gris.

 

and finally an original RAF Pilot Log book . It is dated May 1942 but it is empty. A rare item nonetheless, probably left behind in some office drawer ,when the RAF returned home after the war.

 

Good man! You are on a roll Skipper! Great stuff!

 

Lovely logbook, Skipper. Even unused, these are very hard indeed to find .

 

Some nice documents....

fighter ace of J.G.51 "Mölders"
Otto Tange + 30.07.1943 b. Bolchow/Rußland

Tange combat report

Tange eye witness report signed by Knappe ( Kurt Knappe, + 03.09.1943 bei Evreux/Frankreich )

A hearing signed by Tange and Karl-Heinz Schnell(KC)

A statement of the commander Hartmann Grasser (Oakleaves)

A telegramm from his family, congratulating to his KC.

 

And a couple more...

A telegramm from Hermann Göring to his family, telling about his death.

A handwritten letter signed by Tange to a collector

 

Kai , do you know how Knappe died ? Great documents once again.

 

Sorry don´t have the details of that....

 

Too bad, if it was an accident I would have thought of the Saint André de L'Eure base. I'll pass through that place around Christmas and I know some of the runways are still intact. I would have taken pictures for you.

 

I did check wikipedia, did not believe there´d be any info. This is what it says there:

"On 3 September 1943, Kurt Knappe was killed over Evreux, France after attacking a formation of B-17's."

 

Skip / Kai :

Kurt Knappe : 56 victories, 5 in the west, 3 bombers. flying a Fw 190A-6, werke nummer # 470016, killed in action after engaging B-17's and then air combat with Spitfires. his last detail was with 10./JG 2 flying Fw 190A's.

EP on May 18, 1942
DKiG on October 5, 1942
Ritterkreuz on November 3, 1942

last rank was Oberfeldwebel

 

That's what I needed Erich !

 

thumbs up Skip glad it helped ...........

 

Just arrived from my usual Volgograd digger, a rusty Feldgendarme traffic-indicator 'lollipop' disc...the original colours can be clearly discerned.

( I was the only bidder - it can't be worth faking for the price I got it for ! )

 

Great find Martin, mine arived from there too. It's an aluminium one , so it's in rather good condition. Of course I replaced the wood , but could even recycle the rivets.

 

Mine has the rivets, too - maybe I'll try the 'wood treatment'......

 

It's worth it . Nothing ressembles more to a stick than another stick. If you need the exact dimensions, let me know , it would save you time.

 

Picked up yesterday : a pair of French amno pouches. These are black models as used by the Gendarmes.






Also a rather rare velvet pair of collar tabs for the 17th Regiment du Genie . These were also used by colonial troops, but considering they are velvet I 'm almost certain they were used by a officer.



Note the metal figures which actually cover the same embroided figures. The metal "17" was added when the the embroidied version faded .

 

Two postwar autographs:



Günther Pröhl, 1895-1977

Unit: Führer Panzerjäger-Abteilung 290
January 10th, 1942


Bruno Stolle 8./J.G.2 "Richthofen"

Aces of the Luftwaffe - Bruno Stolle

Bruno Stolle flew 271 combat missions and shot down 35 enemy aircraft on the Western Front including three four-engine bombers and 19 Spitfires.