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 Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Propaganda
Posted by Fred
Ever have one of those days when absolutely nothing goes right? When the whole world seems to be conspiring against you and everything you have been working for has been destroyed in the blink of an eye? Well then you can sympathize with the poor sailor below who has nothing left but his fighting spirit and enough energy to flip off his foes one last time. The post card illustrated below is what I call positive propaganda. I define positive propaganda as propaganda that is boosting your side by highlighting your virtues. In this case the German Fighting Spirit. Other positive German propaganda cards show battles being won, happy troops in the field and at home, royalty doing their duty to support the war effort etc. etc. Negative propaganda on the other hand usually depicts the enemy as inhumane or sub-human and is more often than not based on lies. So in collecting as in life think positive and laugh at the negative.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:06:43 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Mortar Thoughts
Posted by Fred
Many years ago one of the fellows I worked with was a retired air force veteran who spent some time in Vietnam. He knew that I collected military medals and gave me a mortar round which was made in 1943. He said WWII items like this were still being used in Vietnam! Think of that for a moment, if WWII munitions were still being used 25 years later after all the fighting during the last two years of WWII, the Korean war and in Vietnam until then, the American production capacity must have been huge and the quality must have been exceptionally high! It makes me wonder what the cost of production for one of these might have been. Even though this round is totally empty without any explosives remaining it could still be dangerous if it falls off a shelf and on one's head or foot. My only remaining question is how does something like this get out into the civilian world legally? Was it declared surplus due to age or did it just stray?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:07:14 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Bavarian-Austrian Medal
Posted by Fred
The Bavarians and their Austrian neighbors are very similar. Both were allies in the 1866 war against Prussia which they lost. So in 1915 when Italy entered the First World War and attacked Austria it must have felt natural for the Austrians to have the Bavarian 1st Infantry Guards Regiment at their side to help them defend the very rugged Alpine Province of Tyrol. The Bavarians were ordered to Verdun in 1916 but they must have enjoyed their visit to Tyrol enough to gift their hosts with a very attractive medal. The obverse of this silver washed bronze oval medal has an Edelweiss flower shield on the center of a cross with crossed swords. The reverse has the crowned monogram emblem of the Bavarian 1st dividing the date 19-15 which is above an eight line German inscription which translates “The Royal Bavarian Infantry Guard Regiment To Their Brothers In Arms In Defense of Their Home Land Tyrol.“
The medal looks like a privately made piece so I’m not sure how official it was or how it was funded and awarded. For all I know it may even have been issued after the war was over. The medal does preserve the memory of a very difficult, hard fought and under rated campaign.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 6:17:24 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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