Dave B

Hi all,

After a bit of digging around on the internet I managed to contact the Geschwader historian(KG 27) and he has been most helpful.

Herr Waiss sent me a copy of Glocke's page in the Geschwader archives.

Gerhard was from Neum?nster and enlisted in the Luftwaffe in September 1940, at first he was a member of the ground personnel but soon transferred to flying duties as a Bordmechaniker on Heinkel 111s. He spent his whole wartime career with 4./KG 27 Boelcke.

List of awards..

EKII 10.11.40

EKI 1.5.41

Frongflugspange in Bronze 1.6.41

=============Silver 13.9.41

=============Gold 12.7.42

Ehrenpokal 7.12.42

DKiG 26.12.43

and I think he was awarded the pendant to his gold flying clasp sometime in 1943, anybody make this out?...

His final rank obtained according to the archive was Feldwebel.

It seems his squadron service came to an end in January 1944, he wasn't killed but I'm not sure if he maybe transferred elsewhere or was captured. I know he was definitely captured by the Russians at some point but don't know the exact date, it's in his files that he procured some false documents and managed to escape using them.

I think the archives have copies of his citations...see below, does the word next to Urkunden say perhaps photocopy?

I'm hoping to obtain more information from Herr Waiss and if I do I will post here.

Dave

It seems I had a bit of a "Night of the Long Knives" and got rid of all of the Souvals from my photo archive as well, all I kept was a scan of this nice conditioned Souval EKII that was once part of my collection.

I'm afraid I can't add to your gallery of Souvals Micha, they are my least favourite manufacturer of EKs and I purged them all out of my collection some time ago.

Absolutely nothing beats a display of EKs, fantastic Micha!

Dave

Just came across a HJ Knife it looks authentic but the RZM mark circle is complete not broken also the M does not touch the circle.Has anyone seen this tipe of RZM?

Thanks

Could we possibly see the rest of the knife?

Dave

Beautiful quality caps

Thanks for letting us see them!

Dave

Quality Cross Micha

Here's one that used to be mine

Did you get that locally Pete?.....how come I missed it

Yep Danny is right!

Gotta say again though, the 3s on the 75s are really eye catching(well to me anyway)

I can only echo what the others have said and yep it puts the ole Klein in the shade! Just think, I had this piece in my hands but didn't have enough cash on me and I couldn't be bothered to go and get anymore....damn my laziness

Congrats Rich

Dave,

There are a couple in this thread... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2614 posts 15 & 45.

I have no idea what the rank is of the NCO in post 15 but the guy in post 45 is an Oberfeldwebel, is the first bloke an Unteroffizier?

Don't suppose anyone has a photo of a Luftwaffe Unteroffizier wearing an Offizierdolch?.... that they could possibly post please

Dave

Ta JTW!

Hi all,

Am I right in saying that all Luftwaffe Portepeeunteroffiziere were allowed to wear the 1937 Officers dagger(Offizierdolch) from the 12th March 1940?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Nice Crosses chaps, the 3s in the date are very distinctive with this maker I think.

Fellow member Tony lives in Bielefeld, I wonder if he knows anything about it....I'll send him a link.

Dave

Hello Dave

Given how controversial these S&L DKs are, what are the factors that deem a swastika'd S&L DK to be war time or post war ? When you say that the two you have shown are deemed to be post war assembled, (as opposed to manufactured), this implies that the parts are believed to be war time produced. Would this be correct ?

Hello David,

I'm sorry but all I know is that the Crosses were sent to Detlev and he said they are postwar, I can't remember if he said assembled or manufactured.

Dave

Hello David,

The DKs are not mine, I only had the pieces for a couple of days so I took scans of them.

I'm afraid I have no idea what caused the score marks.

Both of the DKs have been deemed postwar assembled.

Dave

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Very nice David

Here are a couple of S&L swastika DKs to compare yours to.

Dave

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Thanks Tony

Dave

Nice crosses chaps!

Here's a couple more factory fresh jobs(well almost).

Nice haul mate