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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2013, 05:11:36 am »
Well I just money dumped into my "What I need" wishlist for WWI German and early WWII German. So -

1. WWI tan breadbag
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2. WWI canteen (wool cover)
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3. WWI service shirt (I can also use this for early war WWII)
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4. WWII tunic hooks (Early in the war, the infantry didn't wear Y-straps)
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5. WWII collar bind (To protect the neck from scratching against wool as well as to prevent from dirtying the collar)
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6. WWII Infantry Assault Badge (I earned this award over a year ago and I finally got around to buying it.)
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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #31 on: August 19, 2013, 12:40:23 pm »
Welcome to the club of Infantry Assault Badges ;)

i want my Iron Cross  ::)

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #32 on: August 19, 2013, 01:10:40 pm »
The only medal that can be worn by Dutch troops in 1813-15 is, ironically, the Legion D'honneur. Yes, the French one.

Battle badges, for example those given to the men who helped taking Stralsund, were also worn, but that's just not as cool.

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #33 on: August 19, 2013, 04:51:57 pm »
"Infantry Assault Badges" very nice
 tell us the story behind why your were awarded it.
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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #34 on: August 20, 2013, 04:42:34 am »
It was a common award. Three separate occasions for infantry assaults that were successful counted towards them. Infantry had Silver, Motorized had Bronze. Needless to say, I had done more than three offensive events and done well enough to consider them "successes".

I also have the Westwall medal, but that was pretty much unit-wide since early war the Division worked on the Siegfried Line before assaulting the Maginot Line.
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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #35 on: August 20, 2013, 06:56:00 am »
Ive only got the Infantry assault badge and am one winter/eastern tactical away from my Eastern Front Medal

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #36 on: August 20, 2013, 03:54:55 pm »
I have yet to go to an Ostfront event (early war) where we've had a decent amount of snow or cold temperatures. So it'll be a bit before I get mine, I think. :P
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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #37 on: August 20, 2013, 04:01:24 pm »
Luckily it was winter up in Katoomba a few months back ;) 

Anyway got a package arriving probs tommorow :)

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #38 on: August 21, 2013, 10:31:33 am »
Who's the maker? What are you going to put on it, if anything?
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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #39 on: August 21, 2013, 10:33:04 am »
Bought from Gavinmilitaria, My BFC Pioneer Impression insignia

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #40 on: August 21, 2013, 02:40:18 pm »
Trotter and british/KGL canteen for the napoleonic are already ordered. Next one will be some new wooden shoes for the bivouac.

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #41 on: August 21, 2013, 02:46:20 pm »
Trotter packs? Isn't it a complete myth that those were used in the Nap Wars?

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #42 on: August 21, 2013, 03:13:23 pm »
It is a myth

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #43 on: August 21, 2013, 04:15:31 pm »
it realy is. But sadly nobody knows 100% how the real pack looked (at least thats how I know it). But a lot of my comrades are already using them (our group was established in the 1980s when everybody thought the trotters were used) so we go on wearing them...

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Re: What's your next buy?
« Reply #44 on: August 21, 2013, 04:23:23 pm »
But a lot of my comrades are already using them (our group was established in the 1980s when everybody thought the trotters were used) so we go on wearing them...

I hate that argument. I understand people want to keep their nice little line with the same uniform, but if that forces people to buy things they are inaccurate, I think people don't have their priorities straight. Overhere, The 7e BvL still tells new members to buy charlevilles, because they all have those, while it absolutely proven that the batallion carried Brown besses during the Waterloo campaign, which they portray.

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But sadly nobody knows 100% how the real pack looked (at least thats how I know it)

Still, why is carrying a backpack that's 0% accurate a better alternative then deciding on a model as accurate as possible?
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