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    Frank M

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    1. His name was Adolf Dwenger. He was born in Bremen, Germany in 1920, spent his compulsory service time in the RAD, and once this was completed, enlisted in the Luftwaffe. He did not become involved in the French campaigns of 1940, but did serve on occupation duty, defending the U boat bases in Brest against Allied aerial attacks, prior to the invasion of Russia. Once this began, he served with Luftwaffe flak units from the beginning of the campaign in Russia until the end of the war.

      Here's a period studio shot of Adolf.

    2. Back in 1995, some of our family members elected to come and visit us here in the United States. Knowing that I had a love of German World War II history, the wife brought along a series of photographs that her father, my mother's first cousin, took while stationed with a flak unit in Russia, as he had recently passed away, and none of the family living in Germany wanted them. When asked if I was interested in them, I couldn't say yes fast enough. I thought I would share them with the membership.

    3. Hello Mark -

      I don't have my Waffen SS autographed photo's framed up such as your enjoyable to look at collection is, but I do have a few. Here's but some of my own individuals of whom I have made contact with over the years. As with all my autographed photographs, I store them in acid free paper folders, under light and moisture controlled conditions.

      Rudi von Ribbentropp, I SS PD LAH, son of Joachim von Ribbentropp.

    4. Thank you Laurence, byf.

      Laurence, I meant to ask you, does/did your own example happen to have any of the contents located in the butt stock storage compartment, or was it empty?

      Frank

    5. The standard issue G43 that I mentioned previously had been liberated in Italy by an American G.I. does have some battle damage to it.

      Along the front of the stock, that being the right hand side if one is a right handed shooter, there are some small nicks. or dings, in the stock. It is my assumption that these were caused by grenade splinters, shrapnel, or some other form of assault to its self. I have i.d. these areas as those being with in the red circles. Also, one will note that there is a small hairline crack that I would assume to have been caused at the same time.

      Frank

    6. Here is a close up shot of the front of the operator's manual. Reproductions of this manual are numerous, however, this manual of mine is a wartime original. This example came with the sniper variation rifle at the time that I purchased this rifle five years ago. I have seen but one more original example since. It should be considered a rare item to locate, at least in the area of the world I reside.

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