Innehållsförteckning för September 2024 från Military Trader

Send to: military@aimmedia.com or mail to: Military Trader & Vehicles, 3240 Olympia Ave. Stevens Point, WI 54481 DRAWING THE LINE ON NAZI COLLECTIBLES I have been a vendor at local swap meets and shows for many years and I also am old enough to have a lot of friends whose parents were brought up in Germany during WWII. Many of my friends lost parents to the death camps. I think the Nazi Party items should be remembered for all time as something for humanity to avoid ever having to go through again. I am well aware that the Nazi Party still exists in small numbers and they have the same ideals as they did in the 1940s. In my opinion the constant pushing of the Nazi items for sale is not…

I owe a reader an apology for being short on the phone this summer. I received your call when I wasn’t having a particularly good week, and was unable to answer your question. I was on deadline, dealing with too many home renovation tasks, and sadly an untimely death in the family. I wasn’t in the right mindset to discuss tropical headgear from the First World War at that moment, and it took me a while to break out of that funk. I do very much hope my suggestion to head to a popular military collectible forum was received — and your question answered to your satisfaction. Likewise, I owe a few apologies to others for not responding (at least in a timely manner) to the emails that I’ve received…

Many collectors tend to focus on specific areas of military collectibles including United States military medals, medals of German States, named medals of particular British units, and even WWI town, city, and county medals of the U.S.A in WWI & WWII to name just a few examples. Many collectors also appreciate the design and aesthetics of medals outside of their main collecting area. One such area, infrequently seen, is the medals of Latin America, including the countries of Central and South America. More than 200 years ago, newly independent Latin American Republics began creating orders and medals as they fought for sovereignty and ways to express individual political ambitions. Latin America’s political independence is most commonly associated with Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), the Venezuelan revolutionary general who led republican armies to…

AUTHOR’S NOTE: One of the articles from Ted Weber’s estate following his death was a large steel trunk containing a virtual time capsule from his 3 ½ years in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII. Included in the cache were his uniforms, a few captured enemy souvenirs, over 600 personally taken photos, another 500 or so commercially sold pictures, and letters of correspondence with his friends and family. The crowning piece of the collection were his diaries: day-by-day descriptions in detail from his entry date of Jan. 7, 1942 (one month after U.S. forces were attacked, causing America’s entry into the war) through much of his time serving in the African and European theaters as a B-24 armorer. Weber’s diaries provide a historical “right there” perspective; describing his experiences…

MILITARY COLLECTOR SHOWS Aug 15-18 IL, Chicago. Orders and Medals Society of America Show and Convention Marriott Chicago O’Hare. 906-250-7013- Greg Harper gharper@up.net. Aug 16 WI, Oak Creek. Military Insignia Collectors of Southeast Wisconsin Friday Night Meeting. Waterstone Savings Bank LL Community Room. -6560 S. 27th St. 7pm Carrie 414-207-4329, x2freak@yahoo.com Sep 14 KS, Overland Park. Kansas City Military Collectors Club Buy-Sell-Trade Show. American Legion Post #370 - 7500 W. 75th St. 9am-3pm. Jeff Barthol 816-550-8095, jeffbarthol@yahoo.com Sep 14-15 NV, Carson. Carson City Gun, Knife & Collectibles Show. Carson City Community Center Sat. 9am-5pm, Sun. 9am-3pm. American Dream Gun Show: Chad Moxley 775-392-2735, chad@strategicsupplies.net Sep 15, 2024 IL, New Lenox. Midwest Militaria Military History & Collectibles Show. V.F.W. Post 9545 - 323 Old Hickory Road. Setup 8-9am, public 9am-1pm. Paul…

Randy Wood says his 1952 M38 “was in pretty unmolested shape when I got it from a local pawnbroker 11 years ago. I was told it had been purchased surplus from Camp Robinson and used by the Civil Defense in Union County, Ark. I actually rode in it some 35 years ago during a search for a lost child our fire department was assisting in. The pawn broker had painted it blue and used it to put his boat in and out of the lake at his camp in Hot Springs. After sanding it down I was able to find the original hood numbers, but not much else. I had been buying old jeeps and refinishing parts for some time, saving them for when I found a jeep I wanted…

With the rise of Adolf Hitler and the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (NSDAP – Nazi Party) taking control of Germany in 1933, the “Sturmabteilung” (SA brown shirts) began to quickly arrest and detain thousands of people across the new Third Reich. These ill-fated souls, made up of Communists, career criminals, priests, free masons, homosexuals and others deemed enemies of the new state, were seized without warning, often in the dead of the night. While under lock and key, they would be tortured and abused in dank cellars, dingy warehouses, abandoned breweries or any other available local holding areas out of the public’s view. When the number of inmates held across the country exceeded 100,000, Hitler ordered the establishment of a “Konzentrationslager” (KZ - concentration camp) system, bringing the prisoners into centralized…

The British have long been fascinated by railways and steam trains in particular. There are train spotters, shows for model railway enthusiasts and societies that convene to discuss anything connected with the “Golden Age” of steam railways. There are even tourists who do not consider their vacation complete without a ride on this nostalgic form of travel. Serving this interest are some 120 vintage railways across the country with a combined total of around 500 miles of track. That may not sound much, but in terms of road travel it’s just longer than the distance from Plymouth to Edinburgh. Sometimes called “heritage” railways, these routes carry an impressive 13 million passengers annually, mainly tourists, and generate some £500-million of revenue. When I came to live in England in 1970, railways…

Beverage company giving away old fighter jet Summer is a time when companies run what can only be described as “interesting ad campaigns.” This summer, a soft drink company fittingly named Liquid Death began running a contest where it will give away a $400,000 fighter jet – the custom-painted Aero L-39C Albatros has been dubbed “The Dehydrator,” reportedly due to the fact the thrust will “relieve you of your bodily fluids and make you empty your stomach.” Through early September, consumers who make an in-store purchase of beverages from the company will be entered into a sweepstakes. In addition to the jet, the grand prize winner will receive a year’s supply of Liquid Death and a custom flight helmet, while the company has pledged to pick up the sales tax…

The Willys MA and MB jeeps, along with the Ford-built GPW, played many varied and vital roles for U.S. and Allied forces on all fronts during World War II, including many its designers never envisioned. Besides, their basic purpose as 1/4-ton trucks, they also served as scout vehicles, command cars, aircraft tugs, ambulances, and fighting vehicles when fitted with various types of weaponry. With such a successful service record, it was certainly no wonder that after the war and during late 1940s and early 1950s the U.S. military improved and upgraded the faithful Willys MB to be incorporated into the new standardized “M-series” fleet of tactical vehicles, first with the Willys MC and lastly with the Willys MD, which became the M38 and M38A1. And while these two new jeeps…

I Sing The Pump Electric Q: I have a 1959 M37, and a friend of mine is always saying I should put an electric fuel pump on it and get rid of the mechanical pump. He has electric fuel pumps on everything he owns. Is there any real advantage to an electric fuel pump? A: I’m not an advocate of installing stuff on vehicles just because stuff is available. In your case, a lot depends upon how you use your M37, as to whether or not an electric fuel pump would offer any significant advantages. Of course, such a pump is not stock for your truck, so that in itself could be a factor if you want to keep it original. And, if you have the original vacuum windshield wipers,…