Heimsch served with 10 (F)LG 2 at Fliegerhorst Kiel-Holtenau - a unit that flew DO 18s (flying boats) before the war. He earned among other awards the EK2, EK1 and the transport clasp in gold. Tunic is a wonderful, high quality tailor made example. It is free of mothing but show...
20th August 1942 Violet Carey records in her diary that the latest rumour is that two large boats are to take all the Germans back to Germany. This would have been a bit of a push given the shipping available at the time and the number of Germans in the Islands. By December 1942 a r...
U-boats reported to have used face-hardened armor on conning tower to help defeat hits by aircraft cannon. All those PzKpfw III's, and alot of IV's, in North Africa were loaded with face-hardened armor. British thought Tiger had face-hardened armor when 6 pounder hits shattered. It was...