Vets wearing their 57ers!!!

[Sepp45]

A rare one of Generalleutnant Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz

[Tom B]

A rare one of Generalleutnant Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz

Hello my Friend ! Yes, a rare photo indeed ! Tom

[Arthur Spooner]

Fantastic additions Sepp!
Is is a fantastic job you do here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sepp45]

Hello my Friend ! Yes, a rare photo indeed ! Tom

Fantastic additions Sepp!
Is is a fantastic job you do here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you guys

[Tony T-S]

Sepp, let me say again how excellent all these threads here and elsewhere are. Outstanding. A great shot of the General's RK with OLS ribbon bar (I think they are OLS).

[Tom B]

Interesting photo: German diplomat in 1958 wearing a set of nice mini 57ers..

Any name on this guy my Friend ??? Tom

[Sepp45]

Sepp, let me say again how excellent all these threads here and elsewhere are. Outstanding. A great shot of the General's RK with OLS ribbon bar (I think they are OLS).

Thanks Tony! And yes, those are OLS

[Sepp45]

Any name on this guy my Friend ??? Tom

No idea Tom.. will check

[Sepp45]

A nice photo of Erich Raeder a few years before his death.

[Sepp45]

Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein wearing his set of mini 57ers, 1959

[Sepp45]

The wider photo of the Honor Guard during Sepp Dietrich funeral in 1966.

From left to right: SS-Obersturmführer Heinz Nowotnik, Hauptmann Wilhelm Massa, SS-Sturmbannführer Johannes Göhler, SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding, SS-Oberscharführer Ernst Barkmann, unknown and SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Max Schäfer.

[Sepp45]

Generalleutnant Gerhard Barkhorn and a good zoom on his ribbon bar

[Sepp45]

Barkhorn's Ribbon bar

[Tom B]

Generalleutnant Gerhard Barkhorn and a good zoom on his ribbon bar

Hello Sepp !! I regret not contacting him while I was in Germany once. After that trip I read where he and his wife were killed in a car crash. Sad indeed. Tom

[Sepp45]

Hello Sepp !! I regret not contacting him while I was in Germany once. After that trip I read where he and his wife were killed in a car crash. Sad indeed. Tom

Yes Tom, both of them died in the same crash.. very sad.