Volunteer decals

**WarCollector2019** · 11-20-2012, 08:10 PM

Spanish volunteers had their own decal.
Thanks, Glen.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 11-20-2012 08:10 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**kylesbullets** · 11-20-2012, 08:46 PM

Thanks Glen for that info.

**kylesbullets** · 11-27-2012, 09:28 PM

Just discovered a little more about the Sauerland decal and that was volunteer decal too

**Shadwellarmy** · 11-27-2012, 09:46 PM

Didnt the Free Indian Legion have their own decal?

Cheers,
Mads

**Adrian Stevenson** · 11-27-2012, 09:49 PM

Re the Free Indian Legion, no, if you refer to one the same as the arm sheild. This decal is a fantasy item made in the 1990's.

Cheers, Ade.

**kylesbullets** · 11-28-2012, 09:06 PM

by Adrian Stevenson

Re the Free Indian Legion, no, if you refer to one the same as the arm sheild. This decal is a fantasy item made in the 1990's.

Cheers, Ade.

just like the Totenkopf decal...

**SSamir** · 12-05-2012, 05:45 PM

I've yet to see an original croatian decal.

**BOB COLEMAN** · 12-05-2012, 06:05 PM

Sauerland is in the south eastern part of North Rhine Westphalia and a part of Germany proper. To correct the erronious statement from young Kyle, they were not a foreign volunteer unit. The decal did exist and is extremely rare. There are many fakes of this elusive helmet. I actually handled an original example when I was a freshman in high school way back in 1959. It was in a junk store in Chicago along with a Luftwaffe helmet with a painted on Bellorussian volunteer shield. Both were $5.00. I bought the Luftwaffe helmet and told the store owner I would be back in a week for the Sauerland helmet. I came back but the helmet was gone.

**SSamir** · 12-05-2012, 06:24 PM

Bob, is that the only one you are aware of? I've searched in different forums n came up with nothing. If it had not been for period pics I wouldnt have believed it existed.

**BOB COLEMAN** · 12-05-2012, 09:01 PM

by SSamir

Bob, is that the only one you are aware of? I've searched in different forums n came up with nothing. If it had not been for period pics I wouldnt have believed it existed.

If you are referring to the Sauerland helmet, that was the only one I have ever seen that i know is authentic. the guy got two helmets from the same vet and both really rare and unusual ones. in 1959, no one would have even known what a Sauerland helmet was. What fake decals that were around were very basic SS ones and made similar in construction to those found in plastic model kits.