Militaria Collecting

Gary Cain · Mar 3, 2024

special ed said:
The sergeant must have been a high timer and survivor seeing the ruptured duck. What was the wreath patch on the right sleeve?

It's the badge for a Meritorious Unit Citation.

Gary Cain · Mar 3, 2024

fubar57 said:
DerAdlerIstGelandet I posted these 7 years ago but got no response. I've had it for about 47yrs. Looks pretty rough so it might be a replica. Did some Googlin' and it looks like a paratrooper badge. Found a name, Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Erdmann, in command of the Fallschirmjäger-Division Erdmann so I'm thinking the name on the back of the badge was the division name. Is this a replica?

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This badge is a very poor fake

fubar57 · Mar 3, 2024

I figured that but had to ask. The tip-off was the paint that dribbled onto the back of the eagle. Thanks

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Mar 24, 2024

Sometimes its the small things that can be incredibly cool. Today I found and picked up 3 scrapbooks from WW2 with sone complete newspapers and mostly cut outs/clippings of all the major headlines and stories from 1941 to May 1944.

Including:

Pearl Harbor
Fall of Bataan
Fall of Singapore
Battle of Midway
Battle of Coral Sea
Stalingrad (from start to 6th Army Surrender)
Invasion of North Africa
Invasion of Italy

Literally hundreds of clippings/newspapers.