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    Scott

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    1. One more: a 22mm red Military Merit Cross, along with a new family portrait.
    2. A new addition from the 2024 SOS.
    3. Scott

      LA MEDALLA MILITAR

      I am posting the Egaña MMI example below for reference purposes. All of the Egaña-marked MMI's posted in this thread (and in similar threads on other websites that I've seen) have the single raised "Egaña" mark front and reverse. The Egaña MMI below is of a slightly different design, and has no mark on the front, with the reverse having the "A.M." (left side) and "Indrustrias Egaña" (right side). Also of note on the front is the missing ~ over the N in 'Campana'. Has anyone else seen this type of Egaña MMI before? Could this be a German manufactured example? I found the medal below while surfing the web.
    4. Another German from this forum,2006, belonging to dond: Order of Mehdi.
    5. Antonio, I was searching the Wehrmacht Awards Forum, and came across the photo below from WAF member, Gary B, in 2014 - here is the link: German Medal Bar with Order of Mehdauia.
    6. I am not aware of a list of those who would have earned/qualified for the wound badge for service in Spain. I do know of three: Lt-RKT Walter Fromm (LW-Flak), Lt-RKT Otto Bertram (LW-Pilot), Hptmn-RKT Hermann Hogeback (LW-Pilot). My online searches acknowledge their wound badges earned in Spain, but don't provide specific award dates. Of the 183 badges to be awarded for service in Spain, 182 were in black, and one in silver. No gold badges were earned/awarded. I could be wrong, but Otto Bertram might be the silver winner, as there are period photos of him wearing a first pattern silver wound badge, and my research indicates he did not earn a further wound badge after the start of WWII. But again, no specifics on when his wound badge was presented.
    7. I know this is an old thread, but would anyone interested in the German 1939 first-pattern/Legion Condor wound badge like to help determine when such wound badges were actually awarded to Germans wounded in Spain? If so, please see/comment in the post below . . . Earliest Award of the 1939 Wound Badge? https://gmic.co.uk/topic/81224-earliest-award-of-the-1939-wound-badge/#comment-721903
    8. Question: What is the earliest documented award date of 1939 Wound Badge? The 1939 wound badge (first-pattern, aka ‘Legion Condor’) was instituted on 22 May 1939, and 183 were to be awarded to Germans wounded in the Spanish Civil War. Yet I haven't found a 1939 wound badge document dated from the summer of 1939 when all the Legion Condor award ceremonies took place, nor seen photo evidence of a wound badge being awarded like the Spanish Crosses were. LC veterans were eventually awarded their wound badges for Spanish service, but I am unable to determine exactly when. Full disclosure: I am not a wound badge or document collector, but I am interested in the Legion Condor, and would like to determine if/when 1939 first-pattern/LC wound badges were awarded during the summer of 1939. Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
    9. Esteemed GMIC researchers, I am trying to discern when first-issue 1939 wound badges were awarded to members of the German volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, often referred to collectively as ‘Legion Condor’ wound badges. It is well documented that the first-issue 1939 wound badge was instituted on 22 May 1939, and 182 black and 1 silver were to be awarded to combatants wounded in the Spanish Civil War. But when were those wound badges presented? There are dozens of photos from the spring/summer of 1939 showing the mass awarding of Spain Crosses following the war, however I’ve yet to see a Spanish Civil War veteran wearing or being awarded a German wound badge, nor seen a 1939 wound badge award document dated prior to 1 Sep 1939 (yet examples of German Spain Cross citations are well-documented). And with only one silver wound badge to be awarded, I would think that would be a highly publicized event; after all, the huge victory parade in Berlin on 6 June 1939 conspicuously honored those killed in the war, so recognizing those who were wounded shouldn’t have been a sensitive issue. The form below is an example used to record decorations earned by individuals returning from the war. Note the list of possible awards includes the Spanish Medalla Sufrimientos por la Patria (the Spanish wound medal – last on the list), but not the German wound badge. Granted the list of awards is not all inclusive, but if the Spanish wound medal is there, why wouldn't the German wound badge be as well, given the badge was authorized and exact numbers were known? Not enough time to make them, one might ask? I doubt that, given the German Spain Cross was instituted three weeks after the 1939 wound badge, yet a handful of manufacturers managed to craft more than 26,000 of those complicated puzzle pieces in time for the widely publicized mass award ceremonies. So my question is: when specifically were first-issue 1939 German wound badges awarded to Germans who served in the Spanish Civil War, and is there any documentation of it? I.e., definitive photo(s) of an award ceremony, photo of one in wear from the spring/summer of 1939, or a Wound Badge document dated prior to 1 Sep 1939. Have I missed an obvious or glaring bit of evidence? P.S., I posted this in the WAF Wound Badge forum a month ago and it sank like a stone with no replies.
    10. My only contribution: a 16mm, single-sided red merit cross
    11. Here's a picture of Adm Raeder wearing his (on the left side of his tunic).
    12. I know this was posted a while ago, but would still like to acknowledge it as a nice example.
    13. Ah, I missed that, my apologies. March 1941 and later - not 1936-39 Civil War related. Thank you Antonio!
    14. Thank you Antonio for the superb references. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I still don't see a ribbon like the one I posted. Is it an authorized hybrid? A prototype? Fictitious?
    15. I found this while conducting a search on the 'net. I've seen the Spanish Medal for Suffering ribbon with green stripes for Spanish military members, and with red stripes for foreign military members, but I've not seen a ribbon that combines green and red stripes. What is the explanation? Is this from the Spanish Civil War period? (the medal itself is 30mm in diameter) Thanks!
    16. Thanks Gordon, can't believe I missed that one. Are you sure it's silver? I magnified the photos, and wasn't 100% sure.
    17. Curious what this forum thinks of the so-called "one-piece" Spain Cross without swords: period authentic, or post-war fabrication? This type of cross has the eagles molded as part of the cross, rather than added separately. The cross photos below are for reference only, to illustrate the type of cross I'm referring to (the cross shown is not mine). My research indicates most collectors believe this cross type is period authentic, although no maker has been identified as far as I know. Note there is a one-piece cross believed to be a 'reproduction' (it has a flaw in one of the swastika arms of the central disk, among other minor differences from the one shown below). A few collectors believe the 'one-piece' cross is a post-war fabrication, since no one-piece silver versions have been discovered to date, and there is no period photographic evidence that definitively shows a one-piece cross in wear. Bottom line: I'm requesting thoughts & opinions on the originality of the 'one-piece' Spain Cross, like the example shown below. Thank you.
    18. I know resurrecting old threads is frowned upon, but this one has the history/context for my question... I have two, nearly identical plastic Luftwaffe "wavy" flags, both painted Flak red. However, the reverse on one says Flakartillerie, and the other says Nachrichentruppe. In Post 28 of this thread, dj--joe also shows a Luftwaffe red "wavy" flag marked Nachrichentruppe; but shouldn't a LW Nachrichen flag be painted brown like it's LW square flag counterpart in Post 34? Anyone have the background on these seemingly identical wavy LW flags that are marked differently?
    19. Scott

      LA MEDALLA MILITAR

      As a side note, while many Spanish MMI may have been struck in genuine silver, a small nick on the Egana-marked MMI on my LC medal bar indicates it was made of silver plated bronze or "tombac".
    20. Some theorize the badges with the two side hooks on the reverse are WWII era (post Spanish Civil War).
    21. Scott

      LA MEDALLA MILITAR

      Found this photo on the net... This LC veteran also spent some time in Bulgaria.
    22. Had the chance to look through one at the SOS...it seemed to be a compilation of other published works.
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