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Holy cow! a Foundry directors' wife! in Silesia? how cool is that?

The Stahlhelmbund officers' book can answer all your questions. There's one for sale for $75 at historical media.com. Good luck.

Sigh...one of Rick Lundstroms' was sold on Ebay a few months back...I was outbid.......am schwarz/weiss band .....Der Speiss was the seller. he might still have the scan in his archive.

Cool! the Liddle collection is fantastic!

Very cool.

Wow! that maaay be the correct ribbon. hold on to it for grim life, because I can't find one anywhere. the Patriot resistance medal itself, issued under HRH Sellassie, was very rare. a Derg era reissue is even rater. Ilya, the only published work so far are 2 basic articles in Orden (in German) from @. 1980. the reissues came later, as they not mentioned in the articles published decrees. almost ALL the Derg medals seem to have followed a Tricolour pattern of some sort, making reading a ribbon bar easy. The notable exception is the bravery medal.

Sold!

Cool.

Good lord! 37 medals! An old WW2 vet.

Is his last name Pretzel? what's the next word?

Yup. Original letter with signature! 2 bucks? Multiply that by 20 and it's yours!

AhG, It's expensive these days though.

Outstanding photo! that St George's medal is fantastic!

Very nice!

Hmmmmmm...when you reduce it, keep me in mind..ESP. For partisan badges.

I found this at my local flea market last weekend for a buck. He ended up getting nothing, despite saving Manhattan. The story was written up in Life magazine in 1945. Leo died alone and forgotten in 1986. sad.

Outstanding! I've been buying up Japanese medal bar pictures for 2 decades and while there is enormous uniformity, sometimes there are surprises.

I don't know what happened. I did my bit.

When did he get the medal? I don't see him in my WW2 book.

Actually, yesterday at the flea market I came across a shoebox with some color slides taken by the purported owner in Kaiserslautern...in 1959! so 1957-1960 only. not bad for a buck.

No kidding. I would kill for that. the Hessian officer corps is rather well documented, although mostly by genealogists.

Wow. Drool. You've made my day.

My understanding from an old Medal News article from 1980 is that campaign stars were awarded to ENSA personnel, including those in Burma who never actually made it beyond what's now Bangladesh.

So.....do you think the Balkan shield was also manufactured in 1945? I was under the impression that jury was still out on the Lorient shield. Still, awesome collection. bravo.

Very cool. I have noticed that since I dug out Martin Kitchens' inadvertent EK1statistics 3 years ago that Someone.........has been buying every enlisted EK1 photo on Ebay at faaaaar more than I want to pay. hmmmmmmm..... Spiffy picture and statistically....almost a rarer combination of awards to Bavarians that the silver Bavarian bravery medal!