hello gents,
a sword i had taken for granted, i decided to pull the handle off just to look. i think its previous owner had it looked at because the kanji has white paint to make it stand out. i think its paint. i'm hoping one of you gents can translate it for me.
thank you. andrew
Hi,
i would like to know if this is a real WWII 101st airbourne patch.
If its not..... from which period than???
Thanks.
i`ve just got this , posted to the SS headquarters in Arolsen , i haven`t translated it yet !
Forum,
How about a little help dating these. I just picked these up because they were a reasonable size, condition, and look for uniform display. Typical Soviet leather outer with white leather inner. Leather soles and stacked leather heels.
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(You'll never look at the game the same way again!)
Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape...
Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing
not only where stuff was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and shelter.
Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.
Someone in MI-5 (similar to America 's OSS ) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever.
At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort.
By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war.
Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were. When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.
As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add:
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass
2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!
British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square.
Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets.. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war.
The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony.
Hello everybody ! I think it is a fake. I do not like the needle, am I right ? What do you think ? Enn
Completely Original Japanese WWII National Flag 20x 27 inches. Vivid Color and Silk. Has portion of Original Makers tag. Please feel free to contact me with your questions or requests for additional pictures.
Hi, I need some help. I have some uniforms I need to make, but I'm having difficulty figuring out who would have worn what. Any help would be much appreciated, and pictures would be really useful. I especially need help with insignia, arm bands, etc as they seem very complicated. Go into as much detail as you can, I need all the information i can get!
Here are my questions (this is all circa 1933/early 34 or so, by the way):
What would an SS captain and guard at Dachau wear?
Who would be responsible for rounding up prisoners and what would they wear?
What would a Berlin sturmmann wear?
On what occasions, if any, would they have worn plain clothes? Would they wear something different in their spare time? Or would they have always been in uniform?
Thanks!
I inherited this tunic and had always thought it was a repro. The EK2 ribbon is obviously to new for the condition of the tunic. It has remains of a breast eagle and dark shadows from where the collar tabs were. Inside it is marked on the tag VEB 303 and inside it says mdl 91 and I cant make out the bottom numbers. Is this a DDR tunic ? A repro? Thanks for your help!
