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    Gordon Williamson

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    1. Hi Kevin,

      The corresponding Soldbuch entry shows him entering the same Luftwaffe hospital that issued the WB doc, on 30 December. However the injury is a rather generic "Granatesplitter". Shrapnel could have come from just about anything, - a grenade, shell or possibly from a rocket projectile from an aircraft. I believe both the P-47 and P-51 carried rockets for tank hunting, and 3 Fallschirm Div was operating with 1 SS-Panzerkorps (these being the Paras you see on wartime photos riding on Peiper's King Tigers).

    2. would he have likely received the metal

      edition of the DK at this point in the war?

      thanks!

      joe

      Joe,

      Yes indeed. The cloth versions were private purchase items. Theoretically the only way to get a cloth DK was to buy one. Only the metal versions were ever oficially awarded.

      Having said that, a Waffen-SS DK winner I met swore that the only DK he ever got was the cloth version.

    3. I let slip the set years ago, but im very happy that the doc's from Lomker are in good hands!

      Congratulations again! :beer:

      PS : Have a nice Helloween to everybody! :43:

      Did you have the full grouping ? I know that at first all of the awards were included and also a photo album but the group was later split up.

      I had hoped to find a nice portrait shot of Lömker wearing the DK. I assume there would have been some nice shots of him in the album.

    4. Just received some KM eagles in a US GI lot; confirmed on warrelics.eu forum.

      http://warrelics.eu/forum/heer-luftwaffe-kriegsmarine-uniforms-third-reich/eagles-blue-background-26683/

      As correctly stated on the other forum, these are genuine Kriegsmarine breast eagles ( for the blue sailors shirt), with an embroidered version of the eagle for the Bordmütze which is slightly more uncommon than the woven version (which would be identical, but smaller, than the strip of breast eagles you have)

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