R.Blue

I recently purchased this photograph. I have not found a period photograph showing luftwaffe personal with a captured Lewis gun before...

I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I would post this grouping. As always, comments welcome.

Hey guys picked this up, it’s matching and in pretty good shape

This gun is bad and is currently on the Rock Island web site. I know because I used to own it. When I bought it about 20 years ago it...

Definitely renumbered

You can even see the old numbers on the safety. Looks like the first two digits were 4 and 0, and the last might have been 9.

Excellent presentation- thanks

A rather curious thing the home address of him and later his widow, the Merkelstraße 4 in Göttingen. This is the Levinsch villa. A wiki...

A google maps image of the place where he was KIA, on the bottom left "Houthem" and where he was buried Ten Brielen (top right)

His grave registration cards.

His WWII award documents.

His Soldbuch. Not much has been written in to it, it was fairly new when he was KIA, but he carried it in his pocket. (Notice that he...

The KIA entry.

His Wehrpaß

It is May again, the time of the “Westfeldzug”, a campaign/period of WW2 that interests me a lot, the “Blitzkrieg” of 1940 doesn’t get...