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29-11-2007, 09:23 PM
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You're Top Poster: #69  |  Kriegsmarine dagger I have been given a Kriegsmarine dagger by a family friend this week. On the scabbard is engraved the name 'Zerhusen'. How would I set about finding out who he was? Thanks! Jonathan |
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29-11-2007, 10:48 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Golly, the only thing I can think of is a roll of honouor or thereabouts for the Kriegsmarine. No idea where to find one of those!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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29-11-2007, 10:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | It is incredibly difficult to get individual details from the German authorities. Even their roll of honour is difficult to use. Basically, like for British personnel, I would say that at this time it just has to be accepted that it belonged to a serviceman, and hope that more of the files will be available in the future. But a lot of the German files were destroyed during and just after the war. However, if you want to know about the dagger then there are very knowledgable people on Axis History Forum :: Index who could help you with dating it etc
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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30-11-2007, 02:04 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Quote:
Urban Dictionary: zerhusen
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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30-11-2007, 03:56 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Utterly charming!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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30-11-2007, 07:53 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | I seen that as well but did not want to hurt Andyd's feelings!
__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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30-11-2007, 07:56 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | At school my teacher used to encourage learning a new word a day. I don't think I want to do that anymore!
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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30-11-2007, 08:46 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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30-11-2007, 09:45 AM
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__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis | |
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30-11-2007, 11:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | ah now i see what you are all on about. when i opened that this morning there was no definition. OK, got it now. Wish I hadn't but I've read it, i can't unread it.
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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