What's your newest militaria III

What I got so far. 1970 FM 7-10,Woodland Scenics Turf, 2 shell cases I do not know the headstamp SV&M,tool with swastica,Tamiya model kit, 2 medal bars and ribbon bar. Rich A. in Pa.

 

Marine Corps Ribbon bars from the 90's.....It's strange, for me, when I see those at swap meets and antique stores. The tool looks like a soldering iron.

 

A vendor that saves me stuff had them. They were $15. I was told that the tool is for the cleaning of the horses hoof. Rich A. in Pa.

 

off the Roma thread which is still not done by the way ............. foto of RK winner Heinrich Schmetz last Kommandeur of III./KG 40 in August through September 1944 before it's disolvement due to terrible losses in men and materials. Quite the accomplished pilot he flew a Do 217K-2 with Fritz-X on the September 43 mission to sink the Roma and in fact several sources claim he sunk the Battleship which to me has not a shred of proof according to "our" thread on the Romas sinking.............

 

Whether he did or not is not important, he was a great airman and it certainly took guts to fly bombers without air superiority

 

Skip sadly so little info on the Roma operation by any side so even with Klaus's book arrives soon who can really prove that he even sent a Fritz into the Roma ? now to find a nice signed pic of kommanduer Bernhard Jope during this time period of Sept. 43.

thanks for the like friend..........

 

Maybe not a Sept 43 one, as I suppose he was far away from the Heimat and too busy to answer letters from children who were not aware were he was anyhow. I can imagine his wife forwarding mail to his Feldpost number, if there was any ... but I doubt such a pic will ever show.

 

Some new purchases lately:

Ca 38 photos from different photo albums Finnish continuation war mainly

Two photos of Finnish Civil Guard men

Finnish Army Officer school and Maxims in the 1920´s

A photo album of a 1936 Finnish Army military training session in South east Finland

A Lake ladoga medal without the ribbon

 

Skip most likely a post war copy signed which would do nicely, though Kai has picked up some dandy ww2 pics with the original sigs am sure a Jope one would could be included in his ever growing inventory soon ..............

I did see a colorized one of B. Jope somewhere on the net which was curious to me.

 

a couple more KM pices shortly to arrive the first was the former CO of the 1.Schnellboot-Flottille and the second Skip should enjoy the former and last CO of Harbor Cherbourg, in fact the chap in June tried to escape with a small Kampfgruppe but ws wounded in the process, Hermann Witt also saw much action in WW 1 receiving his EK 1 and Ek 2 in the process. DkG on June 27, 1994 for leading the Kampfgruppe on the breakout.............

Birnbacher ~





Witt ~

 

Great Items, Erich! Wow!

My newest ones are postwar autographs:

Oskar Schäfer, RK, schw.SS-Pz.Abt.503

Hanns-Heinrich Lohmann, 872.Oakleaves recipient

Walter Girg, Holder of the Oakleaves to the Knights Cross

Günther Eberhard Wisliceny-Post war motif with his signature and dedication

Walter Gerth- repro photo of Walter Gerth, SS-Divison"Totenkopf

 

Kai great pics postwar of the chaps super to add to your growing collection

been looking ror some small items to display with "Wagner" my LW Recon pilot and found two medical bandages from 1944 1 small and 1 large issued to every pilot on operations




hope the second image can be seen proeprly ............

 

Erich , both pics are wonderful , not the Witt one from Cherbourg, but also the Birbacher one who was surrounded in the La Rochelle-Royan-St nazaire Festung and watched the Gironde access to prevent the allies from using Bordeaux until the final surrender on May 9th .

Kai ,excellent additions too , your collection must be huge by now

 

What I got so far. CWU-1/P overall,U.S.Navy pillow case,Aurora AF/X cars & parts,Borg-Warner clip & W.R.A. 1953 ball,4 U.S.M.C. sweetheart handkies,camo hat. Rich A. in Pa.

 

A 1942 dated Shotgun Shell Pouch made by Rubon K.C.

 

hey RR and Sky more great itmes in your collection............great !

 

What me? A little something...autographs!!!

Franz Doff, 10./Geb.Jäg.Rgt.98
Studio photo 8 x 12 cm.
War signed on the front and reverse side by Franz Doff

Josef Niemietz, Zugführer Stab 3.(Fla)/PzJägAbt 332
Postwar signed repro photo.

Gottfried Tornau,
Führer SturmArtBrig der FührerGrenDiv "Großdeutschland"
Postwar signed

Wilhelm Walther 1.REGIMENT "Brandenburg"
Post war signed fieldpostcard Wilhelm Walther

 

And one more...

Wilhelm Wendt-Afrikakorps

Nice repro photo of Wilhelm Wendt.
Reverse signed.

 

I like the Gebirgsjäger photograph!

 

Doff, Franz
* 12.07.1920 Piding, Krs. Bad Reichenhall
+ 01.04.1945 Schleinz/Österreich

He was awarded the Knights Cross
on 20 th of July 1942 as a Group Leader in a Mountain Trooper Regiment

As his company chief was wounded in the battle south of Kharkov in May 1942
he reoccupied alone a hostile trench and successfully fended against all counterattacks.