Bringing History to life...

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[Laurence Strong]

Thank you for those Alex. I hope all is well with youi/

Sincerely

Larry

[TacHel]

Wow! Very impressive work!

[Alex K]

Hello gentlemen, thank you for your kind comments, greatly appreciated.

Some more clear-out

Candid Adolf Galland and someone (Can't think of the name just now but may have posted already)

Some Imperial boys in blue, (OK two in Feldgrau)

[Alex K]

King Boris III Bulgaria, the decoration he is wearing on his dark blue uniform lower left breast is a special and unique award to him to celebrate his 20 years as head of the armed forces, and is quite unique, there are a few known examples (Including one with brilliants) but images of the actual award are extremely difficult to find, (And I've tried hard) fortunately information supplied by another GMIC member and apologies for not remembering them to thank them, supplied me with the above information, I have therefore attempted to "Reconstruct" the award based on available information, result attached.

To be fair, in this instance the colourisation actually shows him wearing the decoration based on my reconstruction, but hopefully reasonably accurate. It is based on the standard Bulgarian officers 20 year Long service cross

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[Alex K]

double post oops!

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[Alex K]

Hi all, a brief window to allow me to re-connect with the GMIC community, so another clear-out, this time it's the boys from the RAF, Battle of Britain etc.

some I may have posted before but many not, be patient with me!!

The first Douglas (Tin legs Bader) on his Hurricane

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2 John Freeborn, who didn't actually have many compliments for Douglas Bader!! he has recently passed away

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3 Australian, Desmond Sheen B of B pilot

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4 Royal Canadian Air Force John Constabaris

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[Alex K]

5 Stuart Walch

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6 Squadron Leader Ioannis Plagis, Grecian, who emigrated to Southern Rhodesia and joined the Rhodesian Airforce during the war

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7 a particularly (For me) a very captivating studio portrait of J R Atherton taken by a member of the Royal Photographic Society the image comes from the British National Trust

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8 Two images of Leonard Cheshire (VC DSO and 2 Bars DFC) Bomber Command

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and to end for the time being one from the other side!

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[Paul R]

Those are spectacular. I did not know that this general had a yellow underlay. I thought that they were all white, with the exception of General der Flak Rudel, who was allowed to wear red.

[Alex K]

Hello Paul, you may have caught me out on this one!! I know Rudel had a unique position with his uniform, so I did a quick check and have edited the above image to more accurately reflect reality, (I am passionate about accuracy) thanks for the input, see previous post. If you scroll back you will see a colourisation of General Rudel, I posted some time back with his unique tabs and underlay

regards

Alex K

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[Alex K]

I've just got so many of them! clear-out whilst I've got the chance

Enemies sharing a cigarette??

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2 Eduard Dietl

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Soviet Rambo (With a gold tooth, and its real)

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hitler and unknown general (To me) at the wolfschance

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Adolf looking like he's just missed the last bus back to Berlin!

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[Spasm]

Alex

Fine work indeed. That last one would be good for the next caption competition.....send it to Mervyn