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Question German War room map marker

My first post here and was hoping you could help me with a recent purchase. I buy the item and not the story, but thought I would include what he sent me: "This was given to me by the veteran himself; who is about 90 now, who was a crew member on a tank. It is high gloss, very smooth layered glass, with no markings on it otherwise. While it does not have ornate decorations or fancy makings about it, it seems to be very simple and functional. It looks very military plain (specificially functional) so to speak.

He said as the Army pushed into Germany they were halted at a heavily defended building that was reported being a command center of some kind near a river. The fight there lasted several hours, and the tank he was on was ordered forward to shell the building. Finally at some point the Germans pulled back and some surrendered, and the building was taken.

As infantry pushed forward the tank crew was allowed to take a break, and had dismounted near part of the building which had collapsed for several floors. An intelligence officer asked several enlisted to help gather items seen in the building wreckage. Inside he saw approx 25-30 of these, but many were already broken badly, and some had different insignias on them, but he recognized this easily. Initially he thought this was a paperweight, and slipped it into his coat pocket as a war prize. As they continued picking up pieces he asked what they were the officer told him this was a territory marker from a planning map, and showed him several pieces of a destroyed smooth top map like we see in the old war movies.

The oficer gathered up several which were still mostly intact, placed them in a bag, and handed them to his assistant to place with papers, and other items being sent to the rear command, but then destroyed all the others like this on site that he was not taking or were already badly damaged so they could not be used my the enemy in any manner."
Has anyone seen anything like this? It is very heavy. Too bad it has been damaged a little, but I guess it makes it that much neater since it is part of if history.

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Whats a good average price these days for a complete WWII German Gasmask and container?

Hi guys, I normally do not buy this kind of thing but, I found a guy locally who has a WWII German Gasmask container, and all the stuff going with it–unissued and in great shape. He’s asking a cheap price for it and I was wondering if you guys could please let me know what these are going for these days? Soon as someone can tell me? ill reveal the price ;-))

KM / Heer? Photos make the difference.

Check out this pic of the same decal on an M42 Heer lid. It really shows the difference lighting and other factors can take in the trickier KM or Heer questions.

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2.WK Wehrmacht Stahlhelm



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2.WK Wehrmacht Stahlhelm



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ORIGINAL german WOUND BADGE war 1914 / 18 steel helmet on medal WW1



$20.50 (12 Bids)
End Date: Saturday Oct-06-2012 1:46:09 PDT
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US ARMY Verbandskasten Vietnam WW2 FIRST AID KIT leer



EUR 6,27 (4 Gebote)
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VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN IN SILBER(maker?)

Hello all,what are your thoughts as to a possible maker for this one.Thanks for your thoughts.


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HELP - Info on these medals? - Battle of Stalingrad coin & more.

Hi guys, I have a few medals I received from my great-grand father shortly before he passed and I would like to find out more about them.. why they were awarded and a little history behind them since I didn’t have a chance to ask him and talk to him about it.

The first one I found out is for The Battle of Stalingrad, but its not the Hero City medal that keeps showing up everywhere online.. its like an over sized golden coin that came in a red pouch. Any more detailed information about this one would be greatly appreciated.

The other medals appear to be just the anniversary of the CCCP military or something like that… again, any detailed information would be great on these.

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He had a lot of medals, but said he wanted to be buried with them, and just gave me these.. is it selfish of me to think that he should have passed them down to me so I could hold on to them? Regardless I respect his wishes… just wish I could have had them, and shared his story with my grand kids.


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Stahlhelm - Offizier - M 16 - Reichswehr - Artillerie - TOP - Feldgrau



EUR 231,00 (23 Gebote)
Enddatum: Sonntag Sep-30-2012 19:32:07 CEST
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