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A couple of years back I bought a group of relics from a Messerschmitt BF109G from member ‘Asperious’ but one thing led to another and I never showed them to the forum. Meantime though, I did some research into the aircraft and pilot and their ultimate fate.

Gefreiter Karl-Heinz Schöffmann of 3. Staffel JG300 was shot down & killed by US forces ground fire near Nordhausen on 27th November 1944. A bad day for the gruppe as it lost 27 aircraft between sun up and sun down!

Prior to that day, Karl-Heinze had been lucky, he had been wounded in action on 18 July, 1944 during aerial combat but bailed safely east of Weilheim ( flying a 109G-6 ).

2 weeks later ( the wounds must have been slight ) he was back in action and on 27th July at 1000hrs and flying at 6500metres north of Plattensee, he downed a B-24 Liberator – his first confirmed kill.

Two months later ( again on the 27th at 1053hrs) his second kill was a P-51 Mustang at 8000m near Bad-Langensalza.
Seems the 27th day of the month was his day ……… for a time.

Another 2 months go by and on the SAME day his luck finally runs out and he falls in combat, the plane ( and him ) shattering to pieces on impact. A record I found stated that “his coffin only contained the left hand with a ring and sand”

Karl-Heinz was holder of the EK1, EK2, wound badge and Fighter operational clasp.
Another fallen young eagle for a mother to bury – and there were SO MANY from both sides…….

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Dan

Hi all, i have a couple of patches but i have no ideas which units they represent, one looks to be British and the other american. Does anyone have any idea what type of patches they are? Any help identifying the patches would be very much appreciated.

Many Thanks

Cheers
Harry

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Hi all new to the site I’m newly into Soviet /eastern block helmets I have 2 as far as I know there both Czech M52 an I right ? The second and third pictures of the same helmet 1st picture is the other .any idea why there’s holes in the rear rim of the darker helmet ??

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Ran across this helmet recently but am not familiar with the CKL stamps. I have seen them with both uppercase and lowercase letters but not in this format. Any ideas on if it is an original stamp? Instincts say no….

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I picked this Luger up off a call from my ad. I do not have a Luger but I do have a few really nice p38’s and I know condition is EVERYTHING. All the numbers match except the number on the top it is the only replacement part. The pistol is in working condition and the guy shot it a few times last week. The pistol was in a French shoulder holster which I do have but did not take any pictures. I do not know if the German solider put it there or the vet but both have been together and that is the problem it was stored in the holster which has caused the condition issues. I feel the price was low so I took a chance and bought it pits and all. Marty

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