This past weekend I picked up a set of three documents (Ostmedaille, Verwundetenabzeichen, and Erkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe) belonging to Gefreiter Fritz Behr-Heyder 3./Feld-Regt. 8 Lw. 3.
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#3 The LW Erkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe is signed by XIII Fliegerkorps Generalleunant MeindlComment
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Nothing wrong with those. Nice little set. Congrats!
HankUnless it was nighttime, or the weather was bad, and you were running out of gas - then it was a sweaty nightmare, like a monkey f*ing a skunk.
~ Dan Hampton, Viper PilotComment
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Nice early group. Good find Bill.Collecting German award documents, other paperwork and photos relating to Norway and Finland.Comment
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Hank & Simon,
Thanks! - BillComment
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Yes, very interesting set !
I have only one Inf. Sturm Abz. doc award for a member of Lw Jager Regt. 9.Comment
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Nice Meindl signature
PComment
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Very nice find Bill.....
I took something from your pic.......Comment
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And I have got this ID-disc.....
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If you are interested, the history of Lw.-Feld-Rgt. 3/Lw.-Div. Meindl is covered in detail in the Antonio Muñoz book, Göring's Grenadiers: the Luftwaffe Felddivisions, pages 335-65. That's 30 pages of text, maps and photos.Comment
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Peter & Luft76
Thank you for your comments. These documents were a late offering to me at the Flonheim show last Sunday.
Francois,
Thank you for your comment and showing your III/FeldRegt. D. LW 3 ID Disc.
BHS1956 - Thank you for the heads up on the reference book...I will certainly be looking for it in the future. I do have two other reference books. The Osprey Men-At-Arms series "Luftwaffe Field Divisions 1941-45" by Kevin Conley Ruffner & Ron Volstad and a German published book "General Meindl und seine Fallschirmjaeger-Vom Sturmreginment zum II. Fallschirmjaegerkorps 1940-1945" by Ernst Martin Winterstein & Hans Jacobs. This book has many maps and photos.Last edited by W Petz; 04-18-2007, 07:01 PM.Comment
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What's going on here, did you sell them already Bill?
http://www.militaria321.com/auktions...tionID=5093795Collecting German award documents, other paperwork and photos relating to Norway and Finland.Comment
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Simon,
Very Interesting!!!! No I haven't put them up for sale but apparently there is more than one copy going around. Needless to say I will be contacting the seller where I bought these...man are the fakers getting good. If you had the ones I have in your hands you could swear to god they were original.
Thanks for the heads up!! Bill
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Not copies Bill, they're the same docs! look at the rips, folds and creases.
If you've got them in hand then it means this seller is selling thin air!Collecting German award documents, other paperwork and photos relating to Norway and Finland.Comment
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