Indholdsfortegnelse for January 2023 i Military Trader

FREE ISSUE OF MILITARY VEHICLES MAGAZINE Active Interest Media wants to give you a free digital copy of our sister magazine, Military Vehicles Magazine, to explore. To grab your copy, log onto www.MilitaryTrader.com. In the upper right of the page, you will see a box with FREE ISSUE written on it. Click that. You will see a screen to enter your email address to receive our free, weekly Militar-E-News. After you enter, the next screen will provide you the access for the free digital download — easy as that! WWI MUSEUM CURATOR CART TO RETIRE KANSAS CITY, MO. – Doran Cart, the longtime senior curator at the The National WWI Museum and Memorial will retire at the end of the year. Doran’s professional career began in 1974 with work in…

December 7, 1941 was a date in history that the United States population and their recovering economy were willfully unprepared for. The 10-year-long Great Depression had ended only a short time before, with everyday life just returning to normalcy for many across the country. Though the number of those in the U.S. military had quadrupled from the previous year (to approximately 1,800,000 members) due to the “peacetime” conscription, they and the U.S. allies were faced with a well-oiled Axis machine with German, Italian and Japanese soldiers hardened by years of fighting in Spain, North Africa and China. As the numbers of U.S. soldiers continued to climb to more than 12,000,000 by 1945, nearly every man able to go into combat was called to service. With a large percentage of the…

When Adolf Hitler and the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (NSDAP – Nazi Party) came to power in 1933, one of their key beliefs was that true “Aryan” Germans were all equal, while other inhabitants of Germany and the rest of the world were inferior “untermenschen” (sub-humans), to be treated no better than common pests and vermin. One place where the cruelest aspects of this twisted indoctrination prevailed was in the medical experimentation labs at Buchenwald concentration camp. And, in this facility worked a medical doctor who treated people as the less-than-humans he believed them to be. Erwin Oskar Schuler was born Sept. 19, 1912 in Bitterfeld, Germany, a small manufacturing town of 12,000 that also served as a vacation area for wealthier businessmen from Leipzig and Halle. His parents were a…

Think fast: What’s the surest way to turn a militaria collection worth $5,000 into $800 in cash? The answer isn’t a bad trade or a bad sale. And moths or a flooded basement. The surest way to destroy theit isn’t value of your collection is die, and have someone who doesn’t know what you have sell it for your heirs. You may have been the beneficiary of such a mistake. Perhaps you spotted a Craigslist advertisement. The prices seemed too good to be true. You called and talked to a widow who is selling off her husband’s collection and it’s clear that she has no idea what anything is worth. Or perhaps you stopped in at a professionally run estate sale and found some German documents being sold for far…

Online too: www.militarytrader.com Casemate Publishers 1950 Lawrence Rd, Havertown, PA 19083. 600 Color Ilustrations, 586 Pages, 8 1/2x11, $75 Available from Amazon and Google This large reference must be the deepest dive ever into the arcane, colorful, but dead-serious world of camouflage attire — that which ideally renders soldiers and security forces invisible to the enemy. The need, as these several hundred detailed, massively color-illustrated pages show, has never been greater. For clearly, the counterinsurgencies of past decades and the “re-pivot” to WWII-type land conflicts a la the Ukraine hardly lessens the need for wearables that break up combatants’ silhouettes into diffuse, often “digital” bits. Since the very start, when men started throwing rocks at other men, they relied on stealth and “camouflage,’’ i.e., shrubs, grasses and trees, and rock outcroppings.…

The “Fear of Missing Out” (FOMO) isn’t actually new, even if the term was only introduced in 2004 to describe a phenomenon observed on social networking sites. In our ever-connected world, the feeling of apprehension that one might miss out on something big has become a bigger problem in recent years. It has been attributed to a number of negative psychological and behavioral symptoms. Even for those militaria collectors who don’t use Facebook, have never looked at Twitter and have no idea what TikTok is – chances are they still understand the concept around the fear of missing out. It certainly explains why many collectors — including this humble author — arrive hours early for must-attend events such as the annual Ohio Valley Military Society’s Show Of Shows (SOS). Simply…

Most collectors of States collect in favorite areas related to our country’s history. While some may focus on the medals of the Civil War, others may focus on those of WWI or WWII. Still others may collect the medals of various state National Guard units. One collector recently shared an amazing collection of more than 1,000 Vietnam in-country unit insignia. It seems that the variety is endless from the medals of the Korean War, Desert Storm, and most recently those awarded for Afghanistan service. An interesting area that collectors should consider are the awards of the military forces of the United Mexican States. Being one of our closest neighbors, Mexico is the third largest country in Latin America, after Brazil and Argentina. As its official name suggests, the Estado Unidos…

Since I still have a couple of kids living at home (and 2 in college that come home sometimes), I get stuck watching a lot of TV shows that aren’t of my choice. Like superhero movies. My kids grew up going to Spiderman, Ironman, Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor movies — and their ilk — and when they spot one on the tube somewhere these days they are likely to stop hitting the scroll button and watch for a while. Recently I flopped down on the couch and they were well into a Captain America movie. I dunno which one — I dunno even how many there are. But good old Steve Rogers was battling his inner demons and trying to figure out how to thwart the Axis power…