Vets wearing their 57ers!!!

[Sepp45]

Good photos Guy, thanks for sharing them here!

Veteran Tank ace Otto Carius now 90 years old with a total of 150+ kills is shown here with his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Carius stared out in a panzer 38(t) as a gunner and latter transferred to a Tiger I as a commander and ended in a Jagdtiger. He survived the war and started a pharmacy called Tiger Apotheke where he still works to this day.
--Guy

This is a bigger photo of the ace He still holds his wartime cross, also with his Oak Leaves.

Regards,
Sepp.

[Sepp45]

I hope you guys don't mind: these are some of Otto Carius medals and badges.

[GHP]

Erich Hartmann



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--Guy

[Sepp45]

Very rare photo of Hartmann, Guy! Thanks

Now, Hauptmann Rudolf Donth

[GHP]

Very rare photo of Hartmann, Guy! Thanks

Now, Hauptmann Rudolf Donth

Thanks Sepp .... boy! it's hard keeping up with you!!!!! And photographs are getting harder and harder to find.

2008

If you expand the image large enough, you can make out what looks like an EKII and Infantry Assault Badge on the vet pointing with his cane to the Gebirgsjaeger plaque.

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--Guy

[Sepp45]

Thanks Sepp .... boy! it's hard keeping up with you!!!!! And photographs are getting harder and harder to find.
--Guy

Don't worry my friend, it's not a competition Besides, you've posted much more photos (and better) than I have.

One more:

General Bern von Baer

[Nigel N]

Once again, a BIG thank you for posting all these great photo's, this has got to be the best single source for 57ers in wear on the entire web!!!!!!!!!!
-Nigel

[Sepp45]

Generalleutnant a.D. Siegfried Fritz Storbeck

[Sepp45]

Vizeadmiral Friedrich Rüge

[Sepp45]

Oberleutnant Zur See (Bundesmarine) wearing a nice ribbon bar.

[Sepp45]

A well decorated veteran wearing his Deutsches Kreuz in Gold (1957 version) together with some other awards and decorations.

(Photo credits http://forum-marinearchiv.de/smf/index.php?topic=9504.0)

[GHP]

In nomine Patris, et Filii, + et Spiritus Sancti

He's a priest!!



I've never before seen a priest wearing military decorations on his cassock!!! The wide sash is called a "fascia." I've seen papal decorations and the Order of St. John, etc., on vestments, but never military. Very nice.

Great photos, Sep!!

Oh, I thought the coat of arms was embroidered .... it's actually the "logo" of Beck's Beer:


--Guy

[Tom B]

A well decorated veteran wearing his Deutsches Kreuz in Gold (1957 version) together with some other awards and decorations.

(Photo credits http://forum-marinearchiv.de/smf/index.php?topic=9504.0)

HOLY COW !!! I have NEVER seen this before !!! Great photo !!! Thanks Sepp !!! Tom

[Sepp45]

Friedrich Foertsch

[Sepp45]

Generalmajor Hans Teusen