Jacques

The soldier is Fw Kurt Buchholz.

The picture was from a big lot of documents. He was the owner of the spanish cross in gold. He fight with the 3./Kampfgeschwader 1.

greetings

Michael

Hi Micha,

Sorry but he is not Buchholz but a friend of him who was in the same unit, may be same crew (Pedro1).

Here is a picture showing Buchholz in the middle, with the friend on left, both wearing the "Medalla Militar".

Unknown radio-gunner wearing the ribbon for the Medalla Militar. May be someone can identify him?

second one

here are the close up. there are not clear enough to assert that it is drop tail eagle. 'll check my other pictures, some are much more clear.

Hi,

I had a look with a magnifier directly on the pics and I can't see nothing convincing. I'll make close up and post them here. I do think it is just an optic illusion.

jacques

Cruz roja del Merito Militar

Medalla de la campa?a

Commemorative medal for the spanish volunteers of the Azul Division

Pilot wings

I don't the others

It is a Azul Division member grouping; he participated to the spanish civil war and then to the campaign against Russia.

jacques

PETERSEN

J?STER

Another officer, former member of the Legion Condor

Who knows this LW general ?

A member of the "Deutschland" during the parade in Berlin. He certainly participated to the attack of the "Deutschland" during the spanish war and won the SC with swords

Nice original age toned massive silver gold cross, Fran?ois. It has kept its gilding in spite of the time. I still don't have identify this maker, but I'll do one of these days.

jacques

Gottardt Handrick

Hans Seidemann

Two others

von Funck

Gunther L?tzow

Wolfram von Richthofen

Helmut Volkmann

(if someone has a photo clearly showing the MM, you're welcome to share)

I would like to update this thread about this scarce and interesting decoration. As I said, the german recipients list is not complete and no one knows the exact number of "Medalla Militar" awarded to german LC members. I propose that we share pictures showing this medal clearly worn only by Germans (full medal or ribbon bar, medal bar, soldbuch/wehrpass entry, documents, etc..) in order to list the names.

I begin with the 3 commanders:

Hugo Speerle,

original IMO.

jacques

Unfortunatly It seems that such voluntary lack of interest happen within each European countries.

jacques

few of his decorations, among them his BW version ribbons bar

Here is one attributed to Johannes Trautloft

here is a pic showing the bar worn

Here is one attributed to Johannes Trautloft

Indeed - I also found these three ribbon bars in my photo archive (again, I don't recall who these belong to). Both are unusual to say the least ...

I don't think these 2 last one original. There are to sell on Militariaweb, and I guess them newly made bars, may be with original ribbons, but it is not even sure.

jacques

In my photo archives, I found this plausable 3-award combination: Red Military Cross, Campaign Medal, Wounded Medal (I don't recall who's medal bar this is)...

Yes, this bar is good. When I was talking about 3 decorations, it was fo the Medalla Militar, cruz de guerra, cruz roja/blanca, and medalla de la campana. The combination of the 3 first one is at least scarce.