Kanalflottille Tradition Badge

[Martyn1]

Interesting tradition badge for Minesweepers in the English Channel

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[pantherv]

Fanstatic I love these tradition badges

[amiklic1]

A great badge. I found similar one this year on SOS. Here it it shown with other items I bought there:

[amiklic1]

and here are few more, just for a reference:



and one with some other bits from my collection ;-)



Also,I was looking for previous post about these badges, I think originaly posted by Eduardo, but I couldn't find it. Can someone point me to it?

[Terrence]

very very nice!!

Terrence

[Martin W]

Nice looking badges from the 4-Raumbootesflottille.

I have never seen a "painted" example before.Very nice and i think it may be a personalised piece ?

Here is one that i used to have.

Regards,Martin.

[greg1878]

Nice interesting piece and photos
Cheers - Greg

[amiklic1]

It's interesting to see that all three badges shown have different pin position on the reverse of the badge.

I am sure there were many men in that flotilla, so maybe jewelers or whoever else the retailer was were buying those as bare badges after which they were soldering the pins.

I'm afraid we'll never know the story, as these badges are really rare.

[John R.]

Very nice badge and photo album. I especially like the fact that the album goes on well after the war as these German crews were employed to clear the wartime minefields.

Are there any photos in the album from that period of time? Be interesting to see how they wore their uniforms.

John

[Martyn1]

Firstly thanks for all the positive comments,John yes the album goes on after the war they are up in Norway clearing mines there are also photos of a reunion after war there is also three citations for the Minesweepers badge,EK11 and EK1,I will try and post some more photos from the album as time allows.

[John R.]

Yes, that would be interesting. We have numerous photo of Prinz Eugen sailors after the war working for the Americans. I say working since they were paid by the Americans to operate the vessel (especially the complex engineering plant). I think, but would have to check, $30 a month.

The uniforms are well maintained--all emblems are gone but there are makeshift ranks on some of the uniforms. Caps are the same as are the pea coats (reefers) being worn.

Naturally, the minesweeper men would have faced extreme danger in the execution of clearing the mines above and beyond just operating the vessels.

John

[Martin W]

Very nice badge and photo album. I especially like the fact that the album goes on well after the war as these German crews were employed to clear the wartime minefields.

Are there any photos in the album from that period of time? Be interesting to see how they wore their uniforms.

John

Also,with this postwar activity i wonder if there are are any photo's that show the Marinefrontspange in wear ?



Regards,Martin.