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Thanks Paul. This is a great thread! Nice postings by everyone. I will share more photos from the album. This portrait shows the former owner of the album. Obergefreiter Arthur Haschem. Cheers, Larry
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My pleasure. I like to collect flak-related photos. Another from the album. Leutnant Reinwetter with a much-decorated flak soldier who is not identified. Cheers, Larry
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Here is another photo from the II/Flak Rgt. 11 album. Several photos show flak men wearing a combination of the Flak Badge and LW Ground Assault Badge. While most people in the album are named the guy in this photo is only described as "gefallen" or KIA. Cheers, Larry
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Hi Jock, Nice photos. He must have been quite young when his son was born. I see he wears a Flak Qualification Specialty Patch as well. Cheers, Larry
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Thanks Paul. Here is writing on the back. This photo is from an album showing II/Flak Rgt.11 (mot) in action in Poland and the Ukraine. Lots of action, medals, vehicles, uniforms, graves, weapons photos. One of the best albums in my collection. Cheers, Larry
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Private photo of Obergefreiter Kuhn of II/Flak-Regiment 11 (mot) who was awarded the Tank Destruction Badge for personally destroying two Russian tanks with hand grenades while helping to repel a Russian armour attack east of Romny, Ukraine on 20 September, 1941. Cheers, Larry
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Kriegsmarine EK2,Kriegsmarine in Wear.
LarryT replied to nesredep's topic in Wehrmacht Medals, Decorations & Awards
Nice photos. Here's one from my wedding photo collection. Cheers, Larry
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That is a very nice portrait. Female DRB portraits are hard to find. Thanks for sharing it with us. DRB portrait with metal collar insignia. Good reference site: http://www.bahnmuseum-benneckenstein.ag.vu/uniformen_vom_bahnschutz/ Cheers, Larry
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Thanks very much Morten. I like the way this guy has pinched the top front of his cap to give it that "peaked look." Cheers, Larry
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Female DRB employee. Cheers, Larry
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I agree, nice photo. Cheers, Larry
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Kriegsmarine Medal cermony performed by Bamter.
LarryT replied to nesredep's topic in Wehrmacht Medals, Decorations & Awards
There appears to be a DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) flag and men in DAF uniforms standing in line in the background. Am I correct? Cheers, Larry
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Woman wearing bare chested man's DR tunic and cap. Cheers, Larry
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Lovely photo of a Bahnschutz Hundfuhrer with his working dog. Thanks for posting. It is strange that more people don't collect DRB photos. The Third Reich would not have functioned without its railways. Here are some DRB civilian employees on their way to work. The truck is a Polski-Fiat. Cheers, Larry
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Thank you very much Morten. Here is an even earlier photo. The cap insignia was introduced in 1924 and the "Bahnpolizei" cuff bands that several of the men are wearing changed to "Bahnschutz" in 1927. So the photo was taken between these two dates. Cheers, Larry
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Bahnschutz portrait with the man at right wearing a Bahnschutz cuff band. Cheers, Larry
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DRB man with his dog. Cheers, Larry
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Group of DRB men, some wearing Deutsche Wehrmacht arm bands. On active service and possibly in the act of transferring somewhere. Cheers, Larry
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Also looks to have been artificially aged by being screwed up and straightened out. Total fake in my opinion. Cheers, Larry
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Great photo. It proves that men with severe disabilities served in the DRB. He looks like he's old enough to be a WW1 vet. Which brings me back to the photo that started this thread. If the young man was invalided out of the war at the front why is he only wearing a black wound badge. Here is a DRB man wearing a side cap. Cheers, Larry
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My Pleasure. Found this link to a site over at WA forum. It is about DRB in Paris, France. It is in French but still nice information about DRB in an occupied country. http://www.occupation-de-paris.com/2012/06/die-deutsche-reichsbahn.html Here is another portrait, this one with a WVD Paris arm patch on his left sleeve. Cheers, Larry
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Thanks Morten. That kind of information is very useful. Here is another portrait. He wears a WVD Brussels arm patch. Cheers, Larry
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Nice photos. I wonder what duties the one-armed man did. ticket collector perhaps or station duties. The second photo is also interesting. Bahnschutz perhaps. Here is another pistol in wear photo. Cheers, Larry
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Thanks Paul. How about this old gentleman proudly posing for the camera. Gotta love his goatee and moustache. He wears a Luftschutz cap and insignia, sanitats armband, Sicherheits-u. Hilfsdienst armband, he wears a Weimar-era Red Cross belt and buckle. His boots are the type seen in 1920s-30s photos. I know nothing about his tunic. Cheers, Larry
