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Very nice example. I do like the SB/WP that are for the more obscure units.

What the video doesn't show is that on the floor of the display on Goering's right is the formal RK citation for the early war fighter ace Helmut Wick.

Thanks for the comments. Now I have Hausser's signature on a citation I think the next one I want to get is Otto Gille's.

Thanks for the background information with regards to St.Ingbert in 1945.

It might not be around for long as I am trying to sell it!

This is the only TeNo item I have in my collection...

And the insignia...

And here is a light weight tropical tunic...

And here are his unit entries...

Here is the photo in a soldbuch I have to a member of the Feldpost...

The other 2...

Having had citations in my collection for some time signed by Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich, Theodore Eicke & Felix Steiner I have been looking for one signed by Paul 'Papa' Hausser to complete the quartet of arguably the most influential commanders of the Waffen-SS. This weekend I was able to fulfill that task when I obtained a 1940 dated EK II citation signed by him for a member of SS-Regiment 'Deutschland'. And so I thought I would share these 4 citations - 2 of them are just singles (Hausser & Steiner) while the other 2 are parts of groupings.

Gerhard Richter - RK 24th Nov 1940 as Oberleutnant & Staffelkapitan 9.(K)/Lehrgeschwader 1.

Someone did as he is listed in the Volksbund Database - the Date Of Birth matches.

That would be my one. I am glad that you have been able to add some meat to the bones as other than what is mentioned on the campaign pages of Gordon's one I have not been able to find much information as to its movements. I think someone, somewhere has sold off their collection of such Wehrpasses as there is a third one listed for sale here to the same unit... https://www.history-...Otto_77277.html

The criteria was for 3 seperate assaults on three different days. As the badge wasn't brought into service until March 1942, these days were backdated to encompass Crete.

For me it has to be William Slim. Placed in command of a demoralised and beaten army and turned it by force of leadership, professionalism & personality into a force capable of beating the largest Japanese Army in the Asian/Pacific theatre despite problems with supply and reinforcements. Down to earth & loved by his men - and respected by his peers and superiors - he even got on well with Vinegar Joe Stilwell - which was no mean feat considering that Stilwell was just as big an Anglophobe as Ernest King.

And finally a piece of paper that lists the days of combat which went towards the Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge (backdated) and shows that Günther Komorowski fought at Maleme Airfield and Hill 107 on Crete, with 2 of those days being noted as close combat days.

Two final pieces of paperwork with the group - firstly this document showing that Günther Komorowski attended a course on the quick release parachute in 1941.

Here are the Campaign entries showing his service in Crete, Russia and Italy. While he was with 4 FJ Division from late 1943 (when it was being formed), during the period of the Allied landing at Anzio he was assigned to its Kampfschule. At the moment I don't know if those at the Kampfschule were used during the German attempts to contain the Allied Bridgehead, although the rest of 4 FJ Division did see action there.

Here are his other awards, inluding the EK II & cuffband for Crete. He received the Wound Badge In Black in September 1941 for a wound he received at Crete on 25th May 1941. The signature for the Cuffband entry is that of Kurt Wolf who won the DKiG on 8th March 1942 in Russia.

As can be seen here, he was awarded his Fallschirmjager Badge in December 1940.

As can be seen he joined the IV Battalion of LL-Sturm Rgt 1 before its exploits at Crete and he effectively remained with it until July 1944 during which it underwent various name changes and re-assignments until it eventually became 14./FJ Regiment 11 of the 4 Fallschirmjager Division.There is nothing in the WP that indicates why his service stopped in July 1944, and he is not listed in the Volksbund Database as being KIA/MIA.

Due to a yawning gap in both my Award Urkunde & WP/SB collections for items associated with the Fallschirmjager I decided that the primary aim for 2011 would be to obtain items related to FJ to fill that gap, at least a little. One thing I can not get excited about when it comes to Soldbucher/Wehrpasses are those ones that relate to men being assigned to the elite units very late in the war when the need for manpower outweighed the need for sufficient training etc and so men from the Kriegsmarine & Luftwaffe found themselves assigned to the Para's, Grossdeutschland, W-SS units in the last 6-8 months of the war, the so called barrel-scraping recruits. And so I was lucky enough to see this Wehrpass listed on a dealer site to a Fallschirmjager (Oberjäger Günther Komorowski) who joined the Paratroopers late in 1940 and was assigned to Luftlande-Sturm Regiment 1 just three months after that units exploits at Eben Emael.

He wasn't a pilot, he was an air gunner.