at a local estate sale
assorted caps
Archive for February, 2009
one more helmet
yours opinoin
british turtle helmet
Heres a recent pick up ,i think its in excellent condition:)
German rifle grenades and launchers
Hi collectors,
I just want to show you some pictures of my rifle-grenade collection. That's my main interest and I have written a book about it some years ago (but it's sold out now).
Enjoy it :)
The red grenade is a training round with a little smoke-container inside.
Michael
I just want to show you some pictures of my rifle-grenade collection. That's my main interest and I have written a book about it some years ago (but it's sold out now).
Enjoy it :)
The red grenade is a training round with a little smoke-container inside.
Michael
Question Cleaning an NPEA dagger
Hey Guys,
a year or two back, while away at school, i bought an NPEA dagger from a fellow who thought it was a fake SA dagger. A short time later I found out what it was and that it was real. Anyway, the blade is super rusty. Right now it is on display in it's scabbard. I was wondering what the best method, if any, is to removing the unsightly rust. I'd really like to have it displayed showing the motto.
Thanks Kindly,
Jess
a year or two back, while away at school, i bought an NPEA dagger from a fellow who thought it was a fake SA dagger. A short time later I found out what it was and that it was real. Anyway, the blade is super rusty. Right now it is on display in it's scabbard. I was wondering what the best method, if any, is to removing the unsightly rust. I'd really like to have it displayed showing the motto.
Thanks Kindly,
Jess
Set for sale: Like losing a loved one :^(
Hello and good day.
Compared to some I'm sure it is a meager collection. It is also a varied collection. It is a lifetimes result of searching my city for military and I love it all. Unfortunately I must let my love go and sell my collection. It breaks my heart and seriously pains my stomach but I must do it. :weep:I would like to buy a property to grow old on. I can't get a loan for a house because I've never had a loan or card of any sort and I never did want a loan or card of any sort. Another contributing factor is that the work I do is too sporadic and sometimes I'm off for months at a time. No loans for Bobbowon. :^( Therefore I must pay for a property outright with the sale of my military collection. Here are a few pictures of SOME of the items I have. There is much more than just the German. There is also Canadian, British, U.S., Etc.. If anyone is interested please let me know and I would be glad/sad to send you all the photos I have. Thank you all and have a great day. Bobbowon D. Kinobi
Compared to some I'm sure it is a meager collection. It is also a varied collection. It is a lifetimes result of searching my city for military and I love it all. Unfortunately I must let my love go and sell my collection. It breaks my heart and seriously pains my stomach but I must do it. :weep:I would like to buy a property to grow old on. I can't get a loan for a house because I've never had a loan or card of any sort and I never did want a loan or card of any sort. Another contributing factor is that the work I do is too sporadic and sometimes I'm off for months at a time. No loans for Bobbowon. :^( Therefore I must pay for a property outright with the sale of my military collection. Here are a few pictures of SOME of the items I have. There is much more than just the German. There is also Canadian, British, U.S., Etc.. If anyone is interested please let me know and I would be glad/sad to send you all the photos I have. Thank you all and have a great day. Bobbowon D. Kinobi
SS Helmet
Can you tell me if it is real.
Italian S.P. Gun
Sure is a crude looking machine.
Cosham (Portsmouth UK) 1940 Then & Now
I work in Cosham and recently discovered a couple of period photo's showing bomb damaged buildings that are still stand today and all with in 5 mins walk from the Office I work in.
So I thought I'd do a bit of research and give you a little information on the German raid that caused the damage. First picture shows an original Luftwaffe target map of Hilsea and Cosham suburbs of Portsmouth. Its dated April 1939, I have marked the bombed buildings positions with an X (I) and X (II) the centre of the X being the site of the bomb drop.
As you probably know, following the initial German bombing/strafing attacks on the British RAF airfields, caused some say by a few German planes accidentally dropping their bombs on London making the RAF retaliate bombing Berlin. Some say the RAF bombed Berlin before London was bombed, either way Hitler/Goring were so incensed by this attack that they turned the Luftwaffe from attacking the RAF airfields on to attacking British City's. This was to prove a strategic mistake because the RAF who had been struggling to get airborne due to the damage, now had time to repair the airfields and once again get airborne in larger numbers. The Bombing blitz of the UK had begun. Many cities suffered from this bombing including London, Coventry, Liverpool, Exeter, Bristol, Southampton and Portsmouth to name just a few.
Portsmouth was as today the home of the British Navy it was also relatively easy to get to being just a short flight from the German forward bases near the coast of France, so proved a prime target. Portsmouth was to suffer many raids over the next few years.
Cosham was originally a village in its own right just to the North of Portsmouths Portsea Island. But had become absorbed into the City as it grew. It was and still is a Northern Suburb.
On the night of Thursday 5th December 1940 the 25th German air raid on Portsmouth began. The raid was a major one beginning at 8.00pm with over 50 bombers dropping high explosive and incendiaries creating thirty incidents of fire across the City, two major fires taking hold in the dock yard on the Southern Railway jetty and No 8 dock where the old ex US Navy destroyer HMS Cameron was so badly damaged it had to be declared a total loss. Fires also started in the Royal Clarence Dock Yards and HMS Vernon.
During this raid two bombs of note (because the results were photographed) were dropped on Cosham. The first believed to be a 250kg HE exploded on the pavement outside the Highbury Buildings built 1935 marked X (I) on the map the central section was brought down. Sadly a Sailor was found dead five months later when the debris was finally cleared away. He had taken shelter in a doorway when the bomb hit. Today the middle section of the building has been rebuilt exactly as it had been with the original ends of the building surviving. On close examination the cement between the bricks in the rebuilt section is slightly different from the original sections.
The bomber flew on and its second bomb another 250KG fell to earth around 300m further up the road hitting the Carlton Cinema in Cosham High Street marked on map X (II) on the map. The bomb went through the roof and exploded in the projectionists room. Sadly a film was being shown at the time and there were two hundred and fifty people in the cinema. Casualties were 50 wounded and dead although I dont know the exact figures. You can see in the original picture that the top of the Cinema was blown off and collapsed inside, I think its lucky there weren't more casualties.
The Cinema/Theatre was rebuilt after the war to a different design but the room over the roadway to the left remains the same and was incorporated into the new building, making the comparison picture easy to line up. Sadly this cinema now looks like its been closed up for a number of years and a very spooky especially now that I know its history.
I noticed after looking at the pictures I took that where the passers by are walking past they appear to be looking at a plaque on the wall that I'd missed. If it is and it remembers the victims I'll get another picture and post it with this.
At the end of the raid across the whole of Portsmouth the total casualties were 40 dead (mostly from cinema) and one hundred and fifty injured.
LUCKYSTRIKE.
So I thought I'd do a bit of research and give you a little information on the German raid that caused the damage. First picture shows an original Luftwaffe target map of Hilsea and Cosham suburbs of Portsmouth. Its dated April 1939, I have marked the bombed buildings positions with an X (I) and X (II) the centre of the X being the site of the bomb drop.
As you probably know, following the initial German bombing/strafing attacks on the British RAF airfields, caused some say by a few German planes accidentally dropping their bombs on London making the RAF retaliate bombing Berlin. Some say the RAF bombed Berlin before London was bombed, either way Hitler/Goring were so incensed by this attack that they turned the Luftwaffe from attacking the RAF airfields on to attacking British City's. This was to prove a strategic mistake because the RAF who had been struggling to get airborne due to the damage, now had time to repair the airfields and once again get airborne in larger numbers. The Bombing blitz of the UK had begun. Many cities suffered from this bombing including London, Coventry, Liverpool, Exeter, Bristol, Southampton and Portsmouth to name just a few.
Portsmouth was as today the home of the British Navy it was also relatively easy to get to being just a short flight from the German forward bases near the coast of France, so proved a prime target. Portsmouth was to suffer many raids over the next few years.
Cosham was originally a village in its own right just to the North of Portsmouths Portsea Island. But had become absorbed into the City as it grew. It was and still is a Northern Suburb.
On the night of Thursday 5th December 1940 the 25th German air raid on Portsmouth began. The raid was a major one beginning at 8.00pm with over 50 bombers dropping high explosive and incendiaries creating thirty incidents of fire across the City, two major fires taking hold in the dock yard on the Southern Railway jetty and No 8 dock where the old ex US Navy destroyer HMS Cameron was so badly damaged it had to be declared a total loss. Fires also started in the Royal Clarence Dock Yards and HMS Vernon.
During this raid two bombs of note (because the results were photographed) were dropped on Cosham. The first believed to be a 250kg HE exploded on the pavement outside the Highbury Buildings built 1935 marked X (I) on the map the central section was brought down. Sadly a Sailor was found dead five months later when the debris was finally cleared away. He had taken shelter in a doorway when the bomb hit. Today the middle section of the building has been rebuilt exactly as it had been with the original ends of the building surviving. On close examination the cement between the bricks in the rebuilt section is slightly different from the original sections.
The bomber flew on and its second bomb another 250KG fell to earth around 300m further up the road hitting the Carlton Cinema in Cosham High Street marked on map X (II) on the map. The bomb went through the roof and exploded in the projectionists room. Sadly a film was being shown at the time and there were two hundred and fifty people in the cinema. Casualties were 50 wounded and dead although I dont know the exact figures. You can see in the original picture that the top of the Cinema was blown off and collapsed inside, I think its lucky there weren't more casualties.
The Cinema/Theatre was rebuilt after the war to a different design but the room over the roadway to the left remains the same and was incorporated into the new building, making the comparison picture easy to line up. Sadly this cinema now looks like its been closed up for a number of years and a very spooky especially now that I know its history.
I noticed after looking at the pictures I took that where the passers by are walking past they appear to be looking at a plaque on the wall that I'd missed. If it is and it remembers the victims I'll get another picture and post it with this.
At the end of the raid across the whole of Portsmouth the total casualties were 40 dead (mostly from cinema) and one hundred and fifty injured.
LUCKYSTRIKE.
WW2 small Soviet Flag
THis was brought back by a German veteran. It's 32 x 53" printed on both sides.
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