Stijn David

Hello, The Glider planes might be known towards a few persons, however how the pilots who flew these "Leukoplast Bomber" where trained is quite often less known. After the Crete campaign there where made practices in dive flights and using a parachute to hold the plane in line. These practices where more and more common and it was the goal to make a so called point landing . This had advantages and one of the major ones was: landing in a very small area and being as quick as possible through the critical zone of Anti Aircraft, etc ... FOr the pilots who had to do it it was very exiting but also very dangerous. The pilot had to make a good count how high he still was before pulling the plane up again,e tc ... (or serious acidents could happen) Pictures of DFS 230's (glider plane) when diving with are quite hard to find, but we are proud to be able to present such a risky training session. Enjoy Cordial greetings,

Hello, Indeed, a scary repro. It would be quite easy to be aged and as you point out => the feathering, etc ... will be the main difference to look after. I just hope that nobody will find such a cloth one in his collection. Cordial greetings,

Hello, And here is the fake counterpart => the colourdifferences are mainly due to the scan. Have fun in studying this one Cordial greetings,

Hello, The German glider pilots badge is a rare bird in a collection nowadays, the cloth version is to be considered even more rare and is not a easy one to find. Due to this rarity it was only a mtter of time before fakes would appear, in this thread it is the purpose to show a real badge and its fake counterpart. The fake badge as shown here has known its birth in the mid 80's in germany. It was produced in order of a very large German LW collector and a original badge was used as reference piece. To make things even a bit more difficult original cloth and original threads where used to reproduce this badge. So a blacklight wont bring you any help any more, the difference is al in the details (such as the feathering) and knowing what you are after is the main thing one can do. The badge shown in this post is a original cloth glider pilots badge, this one was worn by a glider veteran and was obtained directly from this person. Cordial greetings,

Hello Rick, Thank you for the welcome, sadly there where no imperial glider pilots => otehrwise i am pretty sure that you would have such pieces Anyway i will try to do my best to share with you guys, so lets honour our hobby and share a few of those pieces. Cordial greetings, ps: and here is a close up from his awards, note that besides his Lw. glider pilots badge he is also wearing the very rare Silver C badge (in cloth version )

Hello, A few off you migh be aware of my passion for the german (military) glider pilots and i would like to share one of the portraits out of the collection. It is a widely unknown area so it seems and it might be good to share amongst each other. So feel free to post also a few portraits with the rare badge in wear. Cordial greetings

Hello, Is there a possibility to research wich planes (background info on the pilot/unit/etc ...) where downed on a certain day in WW II ? I am looking after a Downed spitfire pilot from Tunesia on the date of 22 th april 1943. Cordial greetings + thanks in advance.

Hello, A Crete Glider pilot's iron cross 1 e class (sorry for the small picture - am only allowed to post small ones for the time being ) Cordial greetings,

Hi john, It was a pleasure to see this one go into very good hands I have no problem at all when you call me up for the glider stuff => i am just addicted and thrilled iff i hear the word Cordial greetings,

Hi John, Excellent badge Cordial greetings,