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Here a picture of the later navy ace Flugmaat Albin Buhl (6 victories) taken at SFS Windau on the day he got the IC 2. He served with SFS List, SFS Windau, SFS Flandern I, Seefrontstaffel , Marine-Jagd-Staffel IV.

Nice pictures. Regards Alex

Yes, Chris. Including some documents from WW2. Regards Alex

I want to present you Flugzeugobermatrose Christian Schmidt from I. SFA. Bronce gilded observer badge and miniature from same maker. Portrait of Christian Schmidt from 1919.

Hagrid, your observer mini reminds me on this miniature I had once. It is engraved similar to yours. Regards Alex

Here a nice see pilot badge probable from the same maker.

I like it too. And I agree with you regarding the maker. Not certain but possible. Regards Alex

Hi Hagrid, welcome here. I'm glad that your first post is on this thread. Maybe it was the reason for your sign in. I hope you can contribute something on this thread. Kind regards Alex

correct.

On the place of the hamburger cross it would be wrong. The Oldenburger pushed on the second position and than the FEK. Regards Alex

Here a picture of him still wearing the hanseatic cross on the bar. Regards Alex

He got the Hamburger and worn it on the medal bar during the war. Later on when he got the Ehrenkreuz he changed it with the Hanseatenkreuz. I have a picture of him wearing this medal bar befor the cross was chaged. Same bar. The Ehrenkreuz was more important for him. Regards Alex

I thought I show you my work. Regards Alex

One more. The group of Oberfeuerwerker Kurt Porske. In the navy from 1902, serving on many ships (S.M.S. HERTHA, S.M.S. LORELEY, S.M.S. MÜNCHEN, S.M.S. MAGDEBURG, S.M.S. KAISER, S.M.S. PRINZREGENT LUITPOLD, S.M.S. KOENIG). He was onbord of SMS KÖNIG during the battle of Skagerrak. From 1917 - 1919 with the airship service. He recieved both ottoman medals during his service at the Feuerwerker school as teacher. Maybe prevent some guys for doing stupid things :-)

So my efforts were waste time. Good to know :-( Regards Alex

300 is hard if is a identical reprint from original but if the reprint require a lot of work it worth to add additional information and new pictures. But 100-200 is realisitc. That makes the book more interesting and the goal of 300 is more realistic. Regards Alex

In my oppionion you should try a OCR software for text recognition to avoid typing. The actual generation of software works very good. 90 percent of the text will be identified. That save you a lot of work. I agree with you that you will not get rich but IMHO it worth. Regards Alex

I regret that this project never been brought to an end, because I and another fellow spent a lot of work to add infomation for a reprint. There were some issues but with more effort this could be solved. Regards Alex

The land pilot badge is the navy version of the imperial german pilot badge although the training was on different units. The navy have their own training facilities but some of the pilots were trained on army training units. The number of navy land pilots are less than army pilots. Regards Alex

land pilot badge. At the moment less then 250 awards known. They were more but not many. Regards Alex

Hi Chris, don't rush. There are a lot of great NCOs group around. My second favorite is the group of: VzFw Georg Markert enter the war with 5. bayer. Res. Feldartillerie Regiment where he remained until 1917 when he changed to air service. After pilot and single seater training he joined Jasta 76b. He had one victory on 30.05.1918 but died the day after on a dogfight. He was awarded the Ehrenbecher pothum.

And unusual. Vary nice medal bar. Regards Alex

Great groups guys. Sometimes NCOs bars are better then officers bars. One if my favorite groups is this one. VzFw Max Kampf an Saxon NCO who served in DSWA from 1904-06. Awarded with MEZ2, FAM bronce and DM for SWA. On WW1 he joined the air service as an pilot and served with KAGOHL 1 1916-17. He was one of few Saxon pilots who received the St.Heinrich medal. The fact that both documents (pilot and commemorative badge) survived makes this group one of my favorites.

This badges are so rare and one of few originals showed on this thread. I hoped to get some more oppinions. Regards

Correct, it is the same badge but from another guy. It is from an german manufacturer. The owner was later pilot with Jasta 22, 6 and 48. Really nice group. Regards Alex