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but it would be very hard to backtrack.........it goes by the number.......then tells you the unit.

i collect photo albums, diaries, etc, and am building a large photo library, in my collection, i have two albums, from two different soldiers, both on russian front, both were in the 90th infantry regiment. was your father or grandfather in this division? ie,...........why are you interested in it? ...

the two germans are regular army, guy on the right is a sgt, other guy is a private, the private has dark color'ed piping on his over seas cap, which means,.........black = pioneer, red = artillery. if it was white, would be infantry. they are not reichsbahn guys though. totally different uniform.

I saw your post, and went to your page. You have some great shots. You need to make sure you get as much information as you can when you buy them. You are correct, the families there are selling these off, and we should feel very priveledged to own / or even view these. They are unique windows into ...

it is a triangle shaped pennant, on a pole. simple enough unit flash.....but cant find it anywhere!! here's a picture of it, it's to the right of the license plate!
thanks!!
http://www.locl.net/homes/teds/propaflag.jpg

ted

need help identifying this unit symbol on the fender well guys.......does anyone out there know? it's just to the right of the license plate. it's a triangle pennant, nothing inside it, on a stick/pole.
thanks!!
http://www.locl.net/homes/teds/propaflag.jpg

they did take photos, but it depends on the person,.......most did not have cameras........very difficult to find russian photo albums, even over there. i have a few. usually almost always officers. another thing people dont think about, but film was fairly scarce by the end of the war, and guys wer...

i collect military photos, and have over 100,000 of them in my collection,......which is ever growing............sometimes totally out of control! yes, gi's, and germans carried photos of their loved ones, not big albums full of them,......just a small momento, to give them motivation to make it thr...

your english is fine. email posting is pretty impersonal. you were asking about it. it must be an old post. i have not gone through much of these for a long time, just starting to get back into it a little bit.

my mother is german, and, obviously, survived the war (or i wouldnt be here). her father was a postal inspector, was 100% disabled in verdun in wwi. floury, was the town where he was nearly killed by a french grenade. they tossed them back and forth, until they went off. he bent down to pick up a &q...

hard to tell which unit those photos are from. looks like it's lecture time,.........so maybe in training. the guy with the mp-40, he might have just been posing for the picture, or on guard duty or something. usually nco's carried 'em. wish i had his smock! gas masks...............those are from ba...

are you kidding? you think someone on here is going to recognize a private, from 60+ years ago? we are not magicians dude...... your grave photos tell you a lot of info already, it shows up too small to read almost, if you look with a magnifying glass, it says, JD, which stands for jager division, l...