What's your newest militaria III

Wonderful grouping my friend that is going to look great all framed together or however you will put this lot in it's right order. just love this type of collecting: badges with the documents as it really gets personal. Now for you to do some further research on the man and his unit(s) served under.

am working on securing a nice LW Recon pilots grouping not quite the size of yours. have been able to find a bit of material on him and his service which is great ....... will share as this comes from Deutschland

 

just came in today for interallied medals from 4 different nations (USA UK, France and Belgium) . These were awarded fro service in WW1 but many officers in their 40s still served in WW2 and wore these.

 

Postcard from Rommel year 1939

 

Erich will like this battered 1937 surviving Navy mechanic instruction book . It belonged to a Free French sailor who kept it aboard the Triomphant from 1940 to 1945 and who served at Narvik (1940) the Pacific (1941-1943) , the USA (1944) and the Mediteranean (1945)

 

My Original jump boots from a 551PIB veteran .

 

Skip great artifact reminds me of the old LW recon radio operators manual I have used over See. Sgt P. great boots, rugged, worn and full of history.........super !

 

Thanks Erich , picked up along with all kinds of souvenirs from Mass and NYC from 1944, maps, bus tickets, business cards, agenda's and even a bunch of girlfriends addresses, (boy he had a bunch! ) . I also have pictures of the familly where he was billeted.

 

post away sir . . . . .

 

ok, I will create a seperate threat for this though, allow me some time to scan the batch .

 

Nice Victory medals Skipper, can you tell me who the British one is made out to......(look around the edge of the medal)

 

I don't see anything Andy. It looks like something was erased . Is it supposed to be awarded or are you looking for a signature?

 

The WW1 British Victory medals were the only ones that were named, that's why they are highly collected (like the one I posted here before to the 19 year old lance corporal) ......sometimes the name/number can be erased though for reasons unknown to me.

for example of what Im talking about, look here:
http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/britishguide/ww1_victory_medal.htm

 

that is probably what happened to mine, I can clearly see something used to be engraved (like a name and surname), but it was erased, shame, I shall attempt to read whatever I can still decypher, but it's going to be difficult if not impossible.

 

Pity about that,....little piece of history perhaps lost, still you never know what you might see under a magnify glass!

 

not much I'm afraid, it was carefully erased almost to the core, I can just see two bars and some remnants of letters

 

This totenkopf which is in very good shape.

 

Great condition indeed.

 

Some pics of German troops in Finland ( Lapland ).

 

Kai do we know which unit ??

another teaser of things to come ............

 

Unfortunately Erich no other marking on the other side than "Finnland" on some of these photos but all from the same soldier who served in Finland.