New addition.....Fährenflottille der Luftwaffe Nr. 4

[WJW]

Sister ship

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[Panzer Rob]

Ian-


Beautiful book! The EKII awarded for the Afrika campaign has me drooling

Chock full of entries... I love the picture too.

Congrats, and thanks for sharing
Rob

[JUNGCO]

Gotta love those obscure units!
Jeff

[Panzer Rob]

Forgot to add... Nice mohawk, Ian

[Ian Jewison]

Forgot to add... Nice mohawk, Ian

I found an old photo from 24 years ago!!!!

[JeremyJ]

Sb

Nice piece Ian thanks for sharing it in detail.

And nice haircut you look like the "last of the mohicans". Boy when the British Special Forces went under cover they went all out.

[polux]

Fährenflottille der LW

Hello Ian,
Answer to your question in image.

KVK 2. Kl. mit X
EK 2
Minensuchabzeichen
Rum. Med. Kreuzzug gegen Kom.

Hello WJW,
Magnificent image. Damage that the quality does not allow to see the interesting details.

Cordial greetings.

Polux

[polux]

Fährenbtl.

To stay in a little known domain, here is an image of a Wehrpass Heer.

Except the LW, the Heer also had Fähren's unities.

SF = Siebelfähren

Cordial greetings.

Polux

[Ian Jewison]

Excellent images to all!

WJW,

Any chance of a larger scan of the guy wearing the Minesweepers Badge?

Polux,

Interesting awards.....now you have shown the Pioniere Werhpa******223;, I also have a couple to these units...in particular one that has the Steuermannschein!

I am not at home at the moment but will dig around next week when I am off.

Jeremy,

Don't tell everyone about what I did in the military


/Ian

Last of the ****ing Mohican's

[WJW]

A larger scan as requested

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[Ian Jewison]

Many thanks WJW

/Ian

[Luft 76]

Polux
Are you sure that (S.F.) means siebelfahren for your Wehrpass Pionier unit ? And not "selbstfahr Lafette" ?

[necker]

Hello Guys,

Very, very nice pics of the soldbucher from a very rare unit. Could someone explaine what the dutys were of members of the Fahrenflottille der Luftwaffe?

I am very curious!

Cheers!
Erich

[Ian Jewison]

Polux
Are you sure that (S.F.) means siebelfahren for your Wehrpass Pionier unit ? And not "selbstfahr Lafette" ?

I thought that was abbreviated SFl. or Sfl. ?

I don't have my references with me but thougth that was in relation to Panzerj******228;ger/Stug weapons etc.

Mind you not sure if the s.F. means the same in the Wehrpa******223; as Siebelf******228;hren .

/Ian

[Ian Jewison]

Hello Guys,

Very, very nice pics of the soldbucher from a very rare unit. Could someone explaine what the dutys were of members of the Fahrenflottille der Luftwaffe?

I am very curious!

Cheers!
Erich

In my case I believe he would have been in charge of the guys that manned the 3.7 cm Flak cannons that were installed on these barges/ferries...as a Hauptwachtmeister not doing the job himself, however he did earn an EK II for something!?!??!

There's a couple of photos and unit histories in these links:

http://www.ww2.dk/articles/flot.htm
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg...mphibik/fp.htm
http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmari...bel/index.html
http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmari...el/image0.html
http://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=214

/Ian