Got these for $60 yesterday at an auction. I was wondering the authenticity of the eagle and if possible, who are the prisoners in the photo. If I need to make a new thread of the photo just say!
Got these for $60 yesterday at an auction. I was wondering the authenticity of the eagle and if possible, who are the prisoners in the photo. If I need to make a new thread of the photo just say!
Looks like a nice original eagle is it uniform removed.
I can't help with photo Sorry.
Cheers
Dave
It is authentic. Most of them are found unissued.
Thanks for the responses!
Looks good.
There is a nice one for sale on GWB
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
pics probably Tunis after the surrender.nice badge too.
Is it just me or are their airplanes in the background?
Gustav Fritz Julius von Vaerst
9 May 1943-ca. 1946/1947: Prisoner of war in British captivity. (Pushed into a pocket southeast of Bizerta by the British-American linkup at Protville in Tunisia, General der Panzertruppe von Vaerst unconditionally surrendered his battered 5th Panzer Army on 9 May 1943 to Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley's U.S. II Corps. wiki
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