Chris Boonzaier

Wow... an interesting group. For me the Gold Wound Badge doc says the most!!

That is an unusual item.... it must have had considerable powers for the bearer...

Yes indeed... that looks very much the same.... I wonder which troops/Units were responsible for doing this in the German army?

A hint.... just that the guy mailing it has not yet gotten to the post office... any mention may jinx its arrival! :-) But it is worth waiting around to see!!!

Hi, a couple of nice items, but a couple of bad ones as well ?

Thats nice indeed!!

Very educative! Keep them coming!!

I think from mid 80s? In Guyane because of the Cammies....

Those are really interesting cards!!

So... i hear you have something planned for this weekend :-)

I dont know the details, and do not say at all that it is so in his case.... but somehow I begin to feel that nowdays it is sufficient to have been twice to a rifle range to be able to claim PTSD. I see folks who see in a career what soldiers 14-18 would have seen in a day... and they have PTSD. Here is another thought... the amount of Vets on the street.... is this really due to PTSD or due to the fact that in the army some people get sooooo used to other people taking care of the daily life part of their lives, that they are unable to adjust to regular life, not because they are so badly affected by what they experianced in their service time, but rather because they simply dont have their sht together? Example... I am lucky my wife took over that for me, i could have landed on the street... not because i had PTSD or "aaaarrggghhh!! Vietnam flaschback!!!"... but simply because, while in the army the paycheck was spent on beer... sometimes it was gone after a couple of weeks... and the next couple of weeks, you relied on buddies for beer... and bought for them the next month when their check ran out..... and then go into civilian life and using your military financial skills... after 3 months guys are on the street going "aaaargghh!! PTSD!!" ... when they should be going "aaaaarrrgghh! Fiscal responsability deficit!" best Chris

Hi, Thanks, Flamethrower is always a hot topic!

What a fantastic group.... I wonder if he was both happy and sad when the war ended.... happy because it was over and he survived, but sad, because looking at all his awards, he was probably just 3 bullets and a handgrenade away from getting an EK1.....

Hi, the truck is full of gas bottels... is this a weather balloon?

Then I will go with that.... it is in retrospect a note written by "someone" on the back of a postcard and no reason to think that he got the spelling right. Probably picked up in conversation, and written as he thought best Thanks for the efforts guys.

But google says it dont exist!

How the hell did you figure that out???

This is on the banks of the WyXXXXX See on the eastern front... any ideas?

Here is a Bavarian Officer... HeinrichXXXX ?

Thanks guys!!

Another name ... SchlichB ??

Can anyone take a rough guess who this guy is? I may have asked before, cannot remember

Hi, can anyone read this guys name? Thanks Chris

I hope he aims with the left eye......

Its Gefreiter von Blauonblau........