what do you make of this guys
ss medal ?
what do you make of this guys
Re: ss medal ?
Fantasy is what I say.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: ss medal ?
Hear! Hear!
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
Re: ss medal ?
Make of it?
Probably a waste bin filler.
It's exactly as Ade says, a fantasy piece.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
Re: ss medal ?
Whats on the other side?..just for a laugh
Nick
Re: ss medal ?
Awarded for services to horses in the field.......???by Woolgar
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
Re: ss medal ?
That would be the Italian fascist eagle gripping a fasces bundle below the text "ONORE/8 SETT. 1943 XXI"; around the border are the words "29a DIVISIONE WAFFEN-SS ITALIANE" (top half) and "IL NOSTRO HONORESI CHIAMA FEDELITA" [i.e. the Italian translation of the SS' motto "Meine Ehre heißt Treue"] (bottom half).
They show up for sale every now and then.
Allegedly, these are late-war commemorative medals issued by the R.S.I. (Republica Sociale Italiana, i.e. what was left of Fascist Italy) to the members of the Italian Waffen-SS. That is how they are usually described when offered for sale, while others think these are unofficial post-war veterans' medals. The majority considers them as fantasy items, though. In any case, not a German medal.
By the way, the German word "FREIWILLIGEN" is misspelt als "FREIWILLINGEN".
Re: ss medal ?
There you go
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