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I'm looking for detail pics of the pouch or wallet that a der Spiess has tucked into the front of their tunics. The type I'm looking for is like the one you see the guy useing in the movie The Great Escape when he questions Ives after finding Ives hidden in the back of the truck under the brush. Any...

On my Kriegsmarine Koastal Artillery re-enactment website I have some audio file I recorded with my good friend and Uboot vetern Edgar about his time in the uboot service. He started out on U650 till an accident sent him to hospital which actually saved his life because he was unable to put to sea w...

yes there was a muzzle cap or plug. In some pics you see this cable or cord wound around and down the barrel. As for figures I some online If I find the link again I will post it

Even though it's a poor pic it is not an iron cross ribbon but the band from a vetran's league peaked cap

The disc pictured translates like this:
5336= means the 5336th person enlisted
the 45= 1945
K= Kriegsmarine Küatenabteilung or coastal marine

sounds like someone put the band from a veterns league cap on the cross. I'm assuming the emblems on it are sideways down the ribbon?

the DK were a stepping stone between the EK1 and the RK. They were awarded for bravery. They got them for doing something brave that was greater then the EK1 but did not meet the requirements for the RK

there is another post of this tunic and it is a km coastal tunic here is the link
http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18898

I read someplace of a british medical officer being awarded the german red cross medal and was sent to England through the International Red Cross. He was awarded the medal for risking his life saving german personel

Yes I agree it is a KM coastal tunic but all of the insignia has been replace and incorrectly as well. The breast eagle should be yellow on green, the litzen should have yellow stripes with a white stripe between the upper and lower sections of the litzen, the shoulder straps should be either bottle...

there is a repro cloth badge of the Graf Spee crest for sale on e-bay will show you what it looked like
http://cgi.ebay.com/German-Battleship-G ... dZViewItem

a maat and an obermaat fall between the rank of stabsgefreiter abd feldwebel
go here and look at pages 44-49 covers all the navy ranks. the other pages deal with trades etc
http://hometown.aol.com/greatpolarbear/ ... anual.html

hubertus my good friend here in Canada severed on 2 u-boots during the war first on U650 till an accident in port where he wound up in hospital. Good thing too saved his life because u650 left for sea duty next day and that was the last they were heard of u650 was lost in the north atalantic with al...

you can get the black km silks here already tied they are east german but will pass for ww2 km http://www.epicmilitaria.co.uk/xcart/home.php?cat=96