Stijn David

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And now it is time to meet the former owner and holder of the shown Lw. Glider pilots.

Here is a picture of him as scanned out of his Soldbuch

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And the reverse of the badge.

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And the badge itself - front.

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Is tehre anyone who can tell wich producer is behind the following maker mark found on a Stahlhelm membership badge?

DWS in a triangle

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Thank you for the comments, much appreciated + thanks for the info (the probable Assmann connection).

Is the droptail eagle a certain early model?

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And the reverse

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Here is a buckle that i obtained togheter with other goodies from a former glider pilot.

The buckle is a "Aluminium" piece, never repaired and in ratehr very good condition.

All opinions are welcome

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Hi brian,

Thank you for the comments, indeed such documents are nice and specially when they can be linke dtowards certain battle's, actions, etc ....

Here is another one fro my collection, a EK 2 document from a glider pilot who did win his EK's in ground combat (namely when active with teh Lw. feldregt. 'Barenthin' during their time in Tunesia

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And ehre we have a nother EK 2 award document for a glider pilot, different year and theathre of war.

This EK 2 was earned for the glider mission towards Cholm.

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And since we are with Crete => here is one earned by a glider pilot for his role played during teh Crete assault.

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And here are the rest of his awards as given towards me:

* EK 2

* Hindenburg cross (maker mark: R.V. PFORZHEiM N? 5)

* Black wound badge (no maker mark)

* Small ribbon bar => sorry upside down scan )

* STahlhelm membership pin ( maker mark OWS or DWS in a triangle + GES.GESCH)

A small grouping from a WWI soldier who survived the madness and did become a 'Buchhalter' after WWI

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And here is a listing (with dates) towards wich units our friend did belong:

22.08.1939 ? 01.05.1940 : Res. Flakabt. 225

02.05.1940 ? 02.08.1940 : 5. Res.Flak.Abtl. 225

03.08.1940 ? 01.09.1940 : 4. Res. Flak. Abtl. 611

02.09.1940 ? 23.05.1941 : Segelfliegerschule der Luftwaffe

24.05.1941 ? 20.08.1941 : III./L.L.G.1

21.08.1941 ? 05.05.1942 : 8./L.L.G.1

06.05.1942 ? 01.03.1943 : 1. DFS ? 230 (1)

03.03.1942 ? 10.03.1943 : 2. / Ausb. Gruppe L.L.G.1

11.03.1943 ? 08.01.1944 : III./L.L.G.1

09.01.1944 ? 17.04.1944 : 4./ Erg?nzungsgruppe (S) 2

18.04.1944 ? 09.07.1944 : II. Kampfgeschwader 200

10.07.1944 ? 09.08.1944 : 5./K.G. 200

10.08.1944 ? 16.01.1945 : Flzf. D. Schule A3 Guben

17.01.1945 ? 09.02.1945 : Schleppgruppe 1, LS Fhr. Komp.

10.02.1945 ? 00.00.1945: 4./ TGr. 30

The notification : 1.DFS - 230 (1) does actually stand for the 1. DFS / VK(S) 1

ALso, as you guys do see, he was also part of the KG 200 and did belong towards the guys who volunteered to do the 'Totaleinsatz'

The persons who do know wich unit did wich mission at the given time can start to look up where he was and for what mission he was forseen => quite a few thats for certain

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Hi Paul,

Thank you for the comment, indeed such finds are quite something and they are still possible.

As for the uniform and insigniabuffs i do show already the one shoulderboard that is part of this grouping. It immediatly does show his final rank

This is badest conserved piece from the grouping, once more pictures are available i will post some more.

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Thank you for the comments, yes such finds are worht everything IMHO and i can only hope that i can find other such groupings

@ John: his final rank was Oberfeldwebel and the fun thing is, he started out as a Uffz. and after the award of his glider badge his uiform did never ever change on the award relation, only his rank did rise ;-)

I will look the book up and see what happened, iff nothing turns up a second one will be shipped out !

@ Rich: the earlyest known dates for a C.E.juncker (Type 1.1 A) to be awarded is very early february 1942 (will comment a bit more on this later on)

@ The rest of you guys,

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Thank you for that information on the Division's battle record. The soldier did originate from Dortmund.

How often are WWI related documents found with a description on the reverse about where a certain award was earned? probably quite common but for me a first.

Will post more pictures once the scans are ready.

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And the reverse of this delicate beauty => notice the typical crakcs in the wreath and the repaired catch.

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I want to show the forumfriends a new piece i managed to aquire. This Lw. glider pilots badge (unmarked BSW) is obtained by me directly from the daughter of the veteran yesterday.

This badge is just a small part of the large grouping i managed to obtain for my glider collection, containing his Soldbuch, Flightlog, Wrest compass, Leather helmet, shoulder boards, several pictures, papers, LW. belt with buckle, lw. Shirt with long sleeves, etc ... etc ....

And this man did actually survive the whol war, was in Russia, France, Italy, etc ... etc .... and did not earn any awards besides his Lw. Glider pilots badge. He did volunteer for the KG 200 and was als drafted into this unit + went into pilot training for the so called "Gruppe Leonidas".

I am very proud on this badge as i can date the appearance of teh BSW pieces better now. This badge was awarded arround early june 1941. This is the earlyest appearance i have found so far of a BSW glider pilots badge.

Hehehe, life is just fun when you specialize. Sometimes nothing happens for months and then all in a sudden such a legacy does pop up. I will post pictures when i have some ;-)

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And the reverse

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I obtained yesterday a glider legacy and among the goodies there where also some WWI things from that family. A small grouping from one soldier :

Musketier Zeppenfeld - 4./I.R. 173

He earned his EK 2 in octobre 1917 (as a part of the 223 I.D.)

The rest of his legacy is:

* Wound badge black + document

* Hindenburgcross + document

* Stahlhelm membership pin

Can any of you guys give me more information on the unit, where where they during WWI etc ...

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For you guys who think that the L?beckteam has been sleeping, not true => our fingers are bleeding from the massive typingjob.

We have finished approx. the half of the roll and have listed so far : 6.385 names.

A small statistical vieuw does give us the following:

1915: 651 persons (10,2 %)

1916: 2.092 persons (32,8 %)

1917: 1.980 persons (31,0 %)

1918: 1.437 persons (22,5 %)

1919: 93 persons (1,5 %)

1920: 50 persons (0,8 %)

1921: 7 persons

unknown year of issue: 74 persons (1,2 %)

And for the guys who love such statistics, i can add that amongst the total of 6.385 listed names the following (specialized) branches can be found:

* Flying troops: 41 persons

* Naval Flying troops : 16 persons

* Luftschiffer: 18 persons

* Naval Luftschiffer: 3 persons

* Navy : 397 persons

* Schutztruppe : 18 persons

And the work does continue

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He was commisioned as a officer at the end of 1943 - that was also directly his final rank: Leutnant. (he started the war as a Flieger and rose towards the officers grade !!!!)

He earned the following awards during WWII.

* Glider pilots badge (1941)

* EK 2 (Cholm mission)

* EK 1

* Cholmshield

* Wound badge black (Cholm mission)

* Wound badge Gold (loss of his eyesight + heavy wounds on his hands)

* Pilots badge (1944)

* Frontflight clasp - transporter / bronze

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And here is a small vieuw on his original Lw. dagger - 2 nd. model (not maker marked)

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Thank you for the coments, he was 21 years old when this picture was taken

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I would like to show you guys a absolutely wonderfull image from a glider pilot.

Here we see Uffz. S. proudly wearing some of his hardly earned awards; namely:

* Iron Cross 2 nd. class

* Iron Cross 1 e class

* Lw. Glider pilots badge

* Silver C badge (bullion)

This picture is a very sharp one and only from this picture it is possible to identify wich type of glider pilots badge he is wearing. He is wearing a glide rpilots badge made b the C.E.Juncker company.

He was a World record holder during 1938 in gliding (duration) and won also his SIlver C during that year. (A rare award iff you think of 2.000 known awards untill1944).

He was involved in the "Kreta" mission and did win his both EK's for that single operation. First his EK 2 was awarded after the return in Germany, a few months afterwards the EK 1 was also rendered (with a few months delay but for the very same mission).

He went on in the war and was also later active in the ressupply and evactuation of teh Kuban bridgehead and did also earn the Frontflightclasp Transporters - Bronze grade.

Enjoy this image and hopefully it brings these rare troops (glider forces) a bit more close towards us collectors

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And the reverse of this piece. Any opinion on how hard these are to find? It is the very first one i have ever found still with the veteran who did wear those. I have visited over 100 glider veterans as of this day and i must say that it is extreme how few uniformpieces you encounter.

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