Researching and collecting World War II helmets, identification tags, badges and military souvenirs

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • World War II military souvenirs are often still found today in old houses, attics or basements. All too often I hear that such items have been thrown in the garbadge or sold off at pawn shops or flee markets for a few dollars.
    If you have such WWII items (helmets, identification tags, badges, souvenirs, etc) that you have little or no interest in, please contact me at the email shown in the video or in the links below, and I may be interested to buy it for a good price. My point is not to earn money, but to find interesting objects to keep and preserve them on the long term.
    If you have WWII relics on which names or serial numbers of soldiers are written, I can also offer free help to try to research the soldier the item belonged to.
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    Militaria collecting - steel helmet - paratrooper - 1939 - 1940 - 1941 -1942 - 1943 - 1944 - 1945 - stahlhelm - German helmet - US paratrooper helmet - ID tag - dog tag - laundry number - Erkennungsmarke - Adrian helmet - mdl 1935 helmet - camouflage - badges - collector - metal detecting - ground dug - metal detector - relics - army service number - ancestry - genealogy - research - how to contact family of German or American WWII soldiers - killed in action - missing in action - chinstrap - liner - decals - parachute - canteen - uniform - swastika - badge - Totenkopf ring - death head ring - wound badge - assault badge - afrika korps ring - campaign rings - DAK - battle damaged - shrapnel hole - bullet hole - gunshot - 35 - 40 - 42 - M1 - M2 - chicken wire - half basket - full basket - snow camouflage - cuff title - hbt - field gray - normandy - d-day - airborne - SS - veteran - war souvenir - helmet cover - identification tags - Luft - Luftwaffe - Polizei - Heer - Panzer - FJ - Fallschirmjäger - Armored - Infantry - Artillery - Kriegsmarine - operation overlord - Dragoon - French Riviera - collectibles - hobby - military antics - 517th Parachute infantry regiment - 509th parachute infantry battalion - 1st Special Service Force - Reserve Division 148 - First airborne task force - Reserve Grenadier Battalion 372 327 164 444 - Reserve Jäger Battalion 28 - German eagle - woodwork - untouched - stalingrad - western front - el alamein - piastrina - ruolo matricolare - value - price - for sale - miliary antics - old army stuff - collar tabs - shoulder boards - pea dot - death head - runes -

Комментарии • 35

  • @rustynail8484
    @rustynail8484 5 месяцев назад +15

    I had a US army helmet liner given to me by a friend. My grandson wore it playing army in the back yard. It had a name and serial number written on the inside of the liner. I went to the internet and typed on his name and several names came up. One was in his 90’s with a phone number. I call d the number and a man answered. I asked him if he had been in the army and read the serial number to him and asked if that was him. He answered yes. I told him I had his helmet liner. He was very excited and said he hadn’t seen it in over 60 years. He had been in the army in Korea. I told him I would mail it to him and I did. He offered to pay me for it and I refused. Sometime later I received a letter thanking me for sending it to him and he inclosed $50.

  • @tanto001
    @tanto001 6 месяцев назад +6

    in joy see your youtube page and the work you put into researching the diffrent items i wish much success with finding a vice for those no long here.

  • @joecampitiello3643
    @joecampitiello3643 5 месяцев назад +4

    I am impressed and grateful for all that you do, I am looking to research members of my own family who fought in WWII wondering If you can point me in the right direction for this task.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  5 месяцев назад +2

      Send me an email with a bit more info on them.

  • @starzap2
    @starzap2 6 месяцев назад +5

    good job

  • @emilioalcazar-su9vi
    @emilioalcazar-su9vi 6 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant your work..putting name and face to that forgotten relics,the human touch..

  • @size1985
    @size1985 6 месяцев назад +4

    Really interesting seeing those items returned to their original owners or at least relatives!
    My grandfather still has a piece of uniform and Iron Cross (1st class I believe) of his great uncle who was kia in 1917

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  6 месяцев назад +1

      What do you mean by a "piece of uniform"? You mean a piece cut off from the uniform?

    • @size1985
      @size1985 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@CrocodileTear Exactly, the part on the shoulder showing the rank. Both were sent back by his superior officer

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  6 месяцев назад +2

      @@size1985 Interesting and unusual.

    • @size1985
      @size1985 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@CrocodileTear There was a letter at some point, describing the circumstances of his death. But unfortunately it has been lost several decades ago

  • @LJWalter78
    @LJWalter78 6 месяцев назад +2

    One day I WILL own a genuine “GOTT MIT UNS” Wehrmacht belt buckle 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
    JaWöhl!

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  6 месяцев назад +2

      They can be found very easily and are worth about 50$

    • @LJWalter78
      @LJWalter78 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@CrocodileTear wow, thank you for taking the time to personally reply!

  • @rexdonbestercalig2914
    @rexdonbestercalig2914 5 дней назад +1

    i had badge of General De gaulle from ww2

  • @87sparker
    @87sparker 3 месяца назад +1

    I have a lot of ww1 items I have to look at them see if I can find some name on it

  • @Iam-me
    @Iam-me 6 месяцев назад +2

    Very sad 😢

  • @turtleofpride4572
    @turtleofpride4572 3 месяца назад +2

    What do you know of the Bulgaria front? Also i have a bag i bought as a teen its beat to hell now but it has a name and number.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  3 месяца назад +1

      I know next to nothing about the Bulgarian front. What country is the bag from?

    • @turtleofpride4572
      @turtleofpride4572 3 месяца назад +1

      I've always wanted to find him and thank him.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  3 месяца назад +1

      @@turtleofpride4572 SEnd me some photos of the bag and the inscriptions.

  • @matejvidmar1229
    @matejvidmar1229 Месяц назад

    Recently i have found a registration number plate with metal detector that belonged to 15.ss police regiment of 3.battalion which was stationed in Trieste and was later killed in Slovene partisan ambush near the villages of Branik and Komen. After the ambush the number plate in visible on the ground near the truck( crime scene picture, 3.2.1944).I found the number plate about 5m from where the picture was taken.
    90 german polizei and italian black shirts were killed that day in 15min and only one escaped.
    His name was Bruno Benedetto and i was told that he is not researchable because he was from an orphanage, and i cant find nothing about him, he was in GNRMDT - 1° Rgt. "Trieste".

  • @robertmunoz7543
    @robertmunoz7543 3 месяца назад

    Cascarones?😳
    Jman

  • @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ
    @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ 4 месяца назад +1

    Hello! Thanks for your work. can you help identify the name of a German soldier by his badge?

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  4 месяца назад +1

      Probably not just by a badge, no.

    • @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ
      @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ 4 месяца назад +1

      @@CrocodileTear I wrote incorrectly . according to his Erkennungsmarke

    • @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ
      @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ 4 месяца назад

      @@CrocodileTear The translator did not translate correctly. not by the badge but by its Erkennungsmark

    • @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ
      @ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ 4 месяца назад

      The translator did not translate correctly. not by the badge but by its Erkennungsmark

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  4 месяца назад +2

      @@ЁЛДАШ-з4ъ Yes, the Erkennungsmarken can be decoded in Berlin now. Here is an example: ruclips.net/video/vqKUvmCnd9g/видео.html

  • @marcb.9492
    @marcb.9492 4 месяца назад +1

    I have a wallet with a soldbuch and some letters and photos that was taken from a dead German soldier in WW1, by an American soldier. There is a note with it that says "Taken from a dead German soldier by (American soldier's name), he needed his shoes, God rest his soul". I plan to do further research and try to locate the soldier's family members.

  • @Marry472
    @Marry472 Месяц назад

    i have a british helmet