landsknechte

Any guesses as to what's on the ribbon bar?

Looks like a nice solid M-30 gas mask. I can't see anything that gives me cause for pause, and I too would buy it. (Still looking for a cannister for my M-38, in fact.)

You are DA MAN!!!!

When did it go obsolete? I'm fairly... obsolete myself and I don't recall ever seeing this.

Sometime after 1976, as this General who started in the guard around that time has one:

<a href="http://www.ngb.army.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/1804.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ngb.army.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/1804.htm</a>

Here's my one lone example of it, appearing on a fairly nonsensical German bar.

And the Unidentified Guys:

Huzzah to that. *sigh*

Look at the rim that goes around the edge of the helmet. Is the seam in the front or the back? If it's in front, it's definately WW2. If it's in the back, it could be very late war or post war.

That's what's MISSING here (which would give his wartime day by day assignments and award dates) from this civilian-end stuff. I suspect the holdings are divided and the two branches of the same building don't talk to each other.

The KRIEGSARCHIV should certainly have his Auszug.

To pull an ancient thread out of the depths of the ether, I've finally got a moment of sanity again in my life, and I'd like to go back in and see what could be dug up. Any suggestions how to go about contacting the Kriegsarchiv and requesting this info, especially given my mediocre grasp of the German language.

I'm a WWII reenactor in the initial phases of working on a German impression. I've stumbled across a few relatively inexpensive items at a firm called IMA, and wanted to submit them to the collective wisdom of the experts here:

M-35 Helmet: http://www.ima-usa.com/product_info.php/cP...roducts_id/1542

Assault Frame: http://www.ima-usa.com/product_info.php/cP...roducts_id/1490

Pack for the a-frame: http://www.ima-usa.com/product_info.php/cP...roducts_id/1304

...any thoughts or opinions on the accuracy of this stuff?

Thanks,

--Chris

Been a bit distracted lately, and have managed to completely lose track of who is doing what in regards to the recently uncovered rolls. Has this lapel bow inched any closer to the realm of identifiability in recent months?

...and in the interests of de-hijacking the thread, here are a couple more of 'em that are actually on-topic:

I have never understood the INSULT Bavaria made downgrading Zahlmeisters and other Beamten to MVK1Xs and so on when they already had peacetime ORDERS and got ORDERS NOT CROSSES from other states. It seems so... needlessly rude and petty to have insulted their own citizens' status that way. It makes for very strange looking groups like yours and Werner's KO4X group.

...you mean like this one?

Thanks for the help guys!

4 RM to the dollar, I believe.

That sounds about right. It's for some photography equipment, and that would price it pretty close to the US prices for the equipment.

Thanks,

--Chris

I'm helping a friend with some research in the immediate postwar period... We have a record of some materials that were purchased from a German firm by American forces immediately after VE Day. Does anyone have any guess as to what the exchange rate between RM and USD would have been at that point?

Thanks,

--Chris

By the looks of the tailoring it has been slashed by the QM when binned on replacement and someone has rescued it. It couldn't have been just standard Guard best tailoring as its too haphazard. the DZ flashes are interesting if real. Do you want to let it go? I'm interested. I'm Ex Airborne Fusilier & 7 Para RHA

Already sold it, I'm afraid.

I was able to dig up the answer, but neglected to update this thread. It's apparently for the fuse of a commonplace aerial bomb. Nothing as romantic as an 88, I'm afraid.

Can anyone help me determine what weapon's fuse would have been contained in this Bakelite fuse case?

...and a couple of detail photos:

Anyone have any idea what this is?

--Chris

Approximately 30" square. Sleeves on two sides for poles.

(The first photo is on it's side. The left side of the photo is the bottom of the flag.)

In regards to this, or any other field of historical inquiry, a supposition made without any evidence is useless. A little "scientific method", por favor.

I've been researching how WW2 Army paybooks (the "Soldier's Individual Pay Record") were filled out, and I haven't been able to find any examples that show the actual pay records from page 4 on filled out. Does anyone have any examples that they might be able to post?

Thanks,

--Chris

it looks to be a cut down sword blade. common with the patton sword blades.

The same thought has crossed my mind, but I can't figure out what it could be cut down from. The shape isn't right to be a cut down M1913 blade.

This curious knife arrived in the mail a couple of days ago, and I'm still trying to make sense of it.

The specs:

Blade is 5 9/16" long.

As viewed from the top 3/16" thick at the thickest point.

1/4" from the back of the blade to the beginning of the fuller.

Fuller is 5/16" wide.

From fuller to edge is approx 3/8".

It seems to be a hair wider, and a little thicker than the M1905E1 bayonet I have to compare it against. Quite a bit shorter. Also, it doesn't fit into the M8 scabbard that the M1905E1 slides right into.

Any thoughts?

Hi landsknechte

Are there any stampings or markings visible on the leather??

Kevin in Deva

Sorry...

In an oval, on the back: STOLLA WEIN