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    Chris Boonzaier

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    1. oops... tahnks; I will correct that the next update.... There is a history of the 173rd on Ebay... why is it never the one you REALLY need for sale!!!!!
    2. Nice. I remember reading somewhere that an American general said the Turks were the best soldiers in Korea.
    3. Couple of cool uniforms... and harry does some Bundu bashing http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html
    4. Hi, he probably figured everyone who got a medal from the kaiser got one. As it was up the unit to print the info, he was just a lucky boy that they personalised them. Best Chris
    5. Very nice indeed, I love the local ribbon!!!
    6. Very nice indeed! Its things like this that make WW! docs soooooo much more intereting than the WW2 or 1870 ones!
    7. Peter Weiss was killed on the Somme with a different unit...
    8. I always thought Polyester was avaoided like the plague. If I remember all our uniforms were cotton, with the reasoning flame, flash or burn would turn polyester into a bubbling burning mess on your skin? Only recently are good flame retardent facrics being used for uniforms..
    9. Hi, looks like a Brit Para badge with the crown removed? What is it? Thanks Chris
    10. Ouch.... would that be a record for a US group?
    11. See post 34... this time being sold by fraku58
    12. KIR may have nailed it. I have asked for some pics and will post them when they arrive. If it WAS an F then I think it would have nothing to do with IR56, if it is an I mistaken for an F then all is well in the land of nod...
    13. I think you can forget the infantry connection... and start looking towards the artillery. Do you have pics? Thanks Chris
    14. The German Objectives have been the topic of heated debate for decades... The camps are very much divided..
    15. Now wait a second... to REALLY bite his balls off, there cannot have been any cloth between the teeth and said body parts...
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