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here's some more info on his unit for ya,............

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... derung.htm

hope this helps ya!
ted

all intrim batons look like intrim batons................ til you get up close. then they have luft eagles on em for luft field marshals,..........army eagles for army field marshals..........etc. the parade batons are colored,...........red = army, blue = navy, in velvet. (with appropriate eagles t...

post the picture of the actual tab, and maybe someone can tell you. hard to tell with no uniform, etc.

that's not a feldpost number. it's a number off of a navy dog tag.

58994D from 1944.................4th company (i think) fstg.Stamm-tr.LXXXIX 39185 .... 1.San.kp.27 and 56713b .....(2nd company i think)........... Fla.Btl.958 from March / December 1944 24472A............. until 1.1.40, it's 1.Kol.Art.Rgt 12, then it's Stab II u. 4-5 Battr.Art. Reg. 238 A means 4th...

..................sell us the SS album!

would you expect anything less? it was not just the SS that was strict on shenanigans.................... one of the family stories from my mother, is of one of her friends' husband's father, who was a general in the wehrmacht. he was at a party, and late in the evening, he, along with a couple of o...

many police units were shipped to poland, to help with prisoners of war, policing the streets, etc. not sure if there are any books about it or not, i've got a photo album that is police, and they go to warsaw, via train, from berlin. not sure which unit it is though, i dont think there are enough c...

the book shows that feldpost number as infantry regiment 420, changing to gren. regiment 420 in '44. does not show any letters...........but the number is probably a D, not a P, and is infantry.
hope that helps!

my book says your tag translates: lang, fernsprecher, falschrimjager, then the numbers, which would be 3rd company, last number is the regiment. only problem is that the fernsprecher one should NOT have an "r" at the end............... AND ALL the paratrooper dog tags that i've had, were j...

was focusing on other stuff i guess.........
thanks!

http://www.stinch.com/militaria/index.html

if you click on his "contact" page, it opens up with a .com email address,.........and wont send. there's no @, etc.

pretty interesting site, if you collect german leather!

this man was a rottenfuhrer, in wiking, and when they were still, or just finished up in budapest, he landed in brno, cz,.........then prague, then went to near cottbus, and was formed into regt. becker, actually, he was using their feldpost number about 3 weeks before the book says it came into exi...

just got in a large grouping of feldpost, from a man who was in regimental staff, for grenadier regiment becker, feldpost number 64210A. going to have to have mom do some reading on the content, his handwriting is a little difficult, but i think it will be interesting content! letters run from fall ...

:oops: my feldpost group is from an oberleutnant, (older man, who was training artillery troops in prague area when russian campaign began, and wanted to rejoin his "old unit". he got his wish, but was made the leader of the trouble maker group, and hated it. he talks only a little bit abo...