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Old 22nd May 2018, 19:43
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Multiple badge holders

In decades of collecting, I've had some unusual mystery cleared up. Some friends who were LW veterans possessed several badges, all earned sequentially. One fellow presented me with three. He was first with a flak unit, then an infantry unit, and finally completed flight school. Another, an early war pilot, wounded and then sent to the HG division, had the LW tank badge. A third had the radio man badge, prewar, then pilot badge (Graf was his instructor for a short while, and friendship lasted until his passing), lastly the "flieger erinnerung badge" after serious wounds rendered him unable to fly. That badge was late war, and had an additional protective coat of gilt paint. Most of the award certificates were lost, but their authenticity unquestioned. Their (current) finishes range from brilliant to worn. Lastly, another pilot had two badges, the pilot and the combined pilot/observer. He wore only the former as the latter had the unflattering nickname " wieder/noch" (neither/nor). Accepted to a fighter unit, he wanted (and did) fit in well.
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