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Hi! Swastika is a ancient symbol whose reputation was ruined by Nazis. It was used in many Armies around the world. It was also symbol of the luck. Latvia and Finland have used this symbol a lot. It was their aviation symbol too. Some examples from Latvia: Different army units. Mostly greated 1919-1921 More here http://uniformologija.lv/izvelne/vecas-latvijas-armijas-krusu-nozimes/ From Finland: Modern Flag of Training Air Wing, Finnish Air Force 1918-1915 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Air_Wing,_Finnish_Air_Force

Symbols of Freikorps in Latvia: http://uniformologija.lv/raksts/brivkorpusu-simbolika/

Bulak - Balachowicz skull badge, 1920 Latvian Latgale Partisan Battalion Est. 1919 Bulgarian Army also was used the Totenkopf in Tank Brigades.

These are Estonian Kuperjanov (Partisan) Battalion items. 1918 - present days. Officer & soldiers during Estonian War of Independence 1918-1920 Soldier hat skull & Officer skull Sport pin Flag

File Name: Why Did Gallipoli Fail? Why Did Albion Succeed? A Comparative Analysis of Two World War I Amphibious Assaults File Submitter: AndresT File Submitted: 12 Nov 2014 File Category: Germany Why Did Gallipoly,allipoli Fail? Why Did Albion Succeed? A Comparative Analysis of Two World War I Amphibious Assaults By Major Gregory A. Thiele The First World War witnessed very few amphibious assaults. The British conducted a well-known landing at Gallipoli in 1915, which was a heartbreaking failure. The Germans also conducted an amphibious assault in 1917 in the Baltic. Although this German landing, codenamed ALBION, was successful, it has been nearly forgotten. Both Gallipoli and ALBION are fascinating in their own right, but they prove most illuminating when compared. Examination of both operations reveals that the decisions made before each operation began, before a single soldier set foot on shore, largely determined the outcome of the campaign. The aim of this essay is to investigate the reasons for British failure at Gallipoli and German success in the Baltic. This essay will essentially be divided into four parts. The first part will describe the failure at Gallipoli. The second part will analyze OPERATION ALBION, a campaign with which many will be unfamiliar. The third part of the essay will discuss the factors that made Gallipoli distinctive from ALBION and which may have contributed to the outcome of each. The fourth part of the essay will compare aspects of the two amphibious assaults. The Dardanelles had been a target of interest for the British Royal Navy from the outset of the First World War. The Ottoman General Staff realized this and had improved defences guarding the Straits, and “At no time after 17 August 1914 (two and a half months prior to the outbreak of hostilities) were the Dardanelles defences unready to receive an attack.”1 The Royal Navy had conducted a first, tentative bombardment of the Turkish forts at the entrance to the Straits on 3 November 1914. The action “thoroughly alarmed the Ottoman general staff … [and] accelerated the program of fortification and defensive improvements.”2 The Turks, more alert than ever, would be ready when the Royal Navy returned in mid-March 1915. The... Click here to download this file

He had Türkish Gallipol Star (Harp Madalyası) too.

Sorry but i cant see ribbon bar there. It may be part of his hussar uniform.

I know this photo. But i don't see ribbon bar there. My english is not good but maybe we think different things? Medal bar and ribbon bar. My mistake! But still i haven't seen post-war pictures where he wearing ribbon bar. Ribbon bar = whitout medals, only ribbons.

Can we see them? Resolution is not problem. Just want to see when and where he wearing it.

Von Mackensen as Commander-in-Chief of the 11th Army in Galicia in his quarters in the field. So it must be 1915. Some of few images i have seen where he wears ribbon bars. On his regular hussar uniform he didn't wore them. (Am i right?)

OK! I see. Thanks! Mostly they are with higher numbers, end of war releases.

We have serial numbers and maybe someone can check when and where he died. And how rare is that one person get at same time two "Za Otvagu" medals? It's weird to me. Why they don't give him some higher medal or order?

http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_06_2014/post-14524-0-36012600-1403795577.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_06_2014/post-14524-0-71613300-1403795235.jpg What You think about these "Za Otvagu" medals? Must have belonged to one person. They have the sequential serial number! So who was the owner and what they are worth? Thank You!

It's a very nice miniature, i like it. But as you can see, something is still missing. If you want to make a perfect thing then it needs radical researching...

Hi! Thank you Uwe! I found it too in this book. I still belive in Google too :-) Somebody have bigger version of this Coat of Arm? I'm interested. It's from book "Feldmarschall v. Mackensen . Festschrift zum 80. geburtstag" , Berlin 1926.

This is GFM von Mackensen Coat of Arms. What mean this latin phrase: MEMINI INITII? I have search answer but not find nothing. Google is not almighty yet...

I like this painting!

Yes it is!

Anton Irv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Irv