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Questions regarding historical warfare objects, their identification and value.
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What are the estimated value of 15 unpublished original Holocaust photos?
Original photographs of the Holocaust itself are extremely rare as photography without permission was strictly forbidden. Similarly, photos of Nazi atrocities taken at the time are also very rare. A few SS men and other soldiers did, however, break the rules. What is more common is photos taken of the aftermath by Allied soldiers, for example, of emaciated survivors.
As for the value, I think you ought to ask a major auction house.
The 1922 Peace dollar is the most common and highest mintage of the series, it's worth around $21.
1922 Peace dollars are the highest mintage most common of the entire series. Average value for a circulated coin (regardless of mintmarks) is $31.00-$41.00.
Why does the Marine Corps insignia have an anchor?
The United States Marine Corps is a department of the United States Navy. The Marine Corps was first developed carry out certain jobs that the average sailor could or would not. Firstly, protect the Captain from his crew. Second, repel enemy combatants on the high seas. Third, be used as special boarding party; to attack enemy vessels. Also as a shore party to conduct raids, as diplomats, and as combatants. The anchor represents the maritime traditions of the U.S.M.C.
How many aircraft make up a squadron?
Depends upon the country (nation). Example (for ground units): During the Vietnam War, an Australian tank regiment of Centurion tanks was equal to a US Army battalion; an Australian tank Squadron was equal to a US Army tank company. So, for US air units, (during the Viet War) a squadron was about 15 to 18 aircraft, with normally about 12 of those being airworthy during any 24 hour time period.
Those travelling with a senior officer are, in effect, a part of the senior officer and return the salute simultaneously with the senior officer. Basic protocol is that you should always return a salute, regardless if it is rendered correctly or even deserved.
When moving in formation, the officer/NCO is responsible for insuring proper honors are rendered, whether they are saluting for the unit, or give the command for the entire unit to salute.
DiscussionI am looking for an answer to this question myself, but have not yet found anything authoritative. So I'll share what makes sense to me (and what was taught to me in the early days of my Army career).
When a salute is rendered to a group of officers of mixed ranks, it is the senior officer in that group who is officially the target/recipient of the salute. While that doesn't settle the question of who returns the salute, it suggests that it may be either optional or inappropriate for the other officers to return the salute.
Consider a party of two, a lieutenant and a major, encountering another party of two, a captain and a lieutenant colonel. It would seem most natural that the lieutenant and major salute the lieutenant colonel. But it would seem inappropriate for the captain to return the salute rendered by the approaching party, inasmuch as that group salute included one rendered by an officer senior to him. When observing just such an encounter, one occasionally witnesses an awkward (not to mention confused) back-and-forth volley of salutes: the lieutenant saluting the captain and lieutenant colonel, the captain responding and simultaneously saluting the major (who is already in the act of trying to salute the lieutenant colonel, but now struggles to figure out whether/how to respond to the captain's salute), the major saluting the lieutenant colonel, and the lieutenant colonel responding.
It would seem that the easiest solution would be that all members of a party encountering another party containing a senior officer would render a salute. Only the senior officer of the receiving party would return the salute.
To further bolster this suggestion, consider what an officer should do when accompanying a senior officer and then encountering another officer of the same rank as the senior. For clarity, I'll specify that a captain is walking with a major. They approach another major. Clearly, the two majors do not exchange salutes. But if the captain salutes the approaching major, he is effectively disengaging from the major he is already escorting in order to acknowledge another officer whose rank is no higher than the one he is already escorting. This seems inappropriate.
As a platoon leader, I was once outdoors with a number of soldiers in my platoon when another lieutenant approached. A well-intended, but unobservant sergeant in the party I was attending to called the group to attention and saluted the approaching lieutenant. Naturally, I responded with something like "Am I not really here, or what?", indicating that he had just taken the attention of my group away from me in order to acknowledge an officer of equivalent rank. Clearly, this was inappropriate.
This would explain why one accompanying a senior officer need only salute officers senior to both of them, and not all officer senior to him. If we apply a similar approach, I think we find grounds for suggesting that when a group of mixed rank officers is saluted, only the senior responds.
Unfortunately, I think that few servicemen are reflective enough to realize this. Instead, withholding a salute can leave them wondering what is wrong with the junior officer that he didn't return the salute. So propriety aside, it may still be worth returning a salute. Beyond being just a show of deference or respect, a salute is also a greeting exchanged between comrades in arms. Given that, we might welcome the opportunity to participate in an exchange of salutes.
As a commissioned officer, myself, a first lt., i wasalways taught that the salute is a recognition of rank, not the individual, and common militarycourtesy requires that all salutes be returned by all officers to those doing the saluting.
What is another name for Operation Desert Storm?
Operation Desert Shield was the name of the first phase of the first Gulf War. The second phase, the liberation of Kuwait, was operation Desert Storm.
Operation Desert Shield (Gulf War) was the name of the deployment of allied troops to defend Saudi Arabia from possible invasion by Iraq in 1990, and formed part of the 1990-91 Gulf War.
What is the value of a 1917 knuckle duster trench knife?
There are many variables in this...condition of knife and especially sheath (leather) if you wish to email me some pics, I will make you an offer asmith1@dadeschools.net I am a high school teacher and collector of WW2/WW1 military items. Thanks
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What is the value of a usm8a1 bayonet?
In an unused, new in box (NIB) condition, the M6 Bayonet typically will sell for around $50.00 from most military surplus vendors. If the byonet can be positively identified as belonging to a particular individual of historical significance, or a historic event, the price may increase based upon the relevant information.
Who is the current commander of US Ground forces in Iraq?
General David H. Petraeus
Commanding General
Multi-National Force - Iraq
prices vary on all lugers. with a luger, 2 matching mags and holster it is called a 'rig'. prices can go up to $2,000 more or less. Go to: GUNSAMERICA.COM and look up lugers listed for prices
In what country was the No 4 MK 1 long branch 303 British 1944 made in?
Unless otherwise marked, Britian.
How many tanks does the US have?
The United States active tank fleet stands at more than 2,400. During World War 2, the US employed a total of roughly fifty thousand tanks, more than half of which were the ever famous Shermans.
The ubiquity of the swastika symbol is easily explained by its being a very simple shape that will arise independently in any basket-weaving society. The swastika is a repeating design, created by the edges of the reeds in a square basket-weave. Other theories attempt to establish a connection via cultural diffusion or an explanation along the lines of Carl Jung's collective unconscious. The genesis of the swastika symbol is often treated in conjunction with cross symbols in general, such as the "sun wheel" of Bronze Age religion. Another explanation is suggested by Carl Sagan in his book Comet. Sagan reproduces an ancient Chinese manuscript (the Book of Silk) that shows comet tail varieties: most are variations on simple comet tails, but the last shows the comet nucleus with four bent arms extending from it, recalling a swastika. Sagan suggests that in antiquity a comet could have approached so close to Earth that the jets of gas streaming from it, bent by the comet's rotation, became visible, leading to the adoption of the swastika as a symbol across the world. In Life's other secret, Ian Stewart suggests the ubiquitous swastika pattern arises when parallel waves of neural activity sweep across the visual cortex during states of altered consciousness, producing a swirling swastika-like image, due to the way quadrants in the field of vision are mapped to opposite areas in the brain. Alexander Cunningham for the Indian swastika symbol rejected any connection with sun-worship and suggested that the shape arose from a combination of Brahmi characters abbreviating the word su-astí.
Do soldiers go to hell for murdering?
Not if the killing is done in a battle or in the line of duty, but they are chargeable if they kill innocent persons who intend them no wrong or if they are on their own time and happen to kill someone in a non related war incident.
How should you position the feet when assuming parade rest?
They should be positioned a shoulder length apart.
What was the revolver used by US in desert storm?
The standard issue sidearm of US forces during the time of Desert Storm was the semi-automatic Beretta M9 pistol. Semi automatic pistols have been the standard for US sidearms since 1911, although the .38 caliber revolvers continued to appear well into the Korean War, and there are some instances of them appearing in Vietnam, as well.
Some embassy security forces use a .357 revolver as their sidearm, but no revolver is service issue in any combat unit.
What did a cannonball from the Mexican War look like?
Like you see in the movies. It was round like a bowling ball but smaller. Artillery from that time was classified by the weight of the projectile rather than the caliber of the gun, and it continued to be done this way in Great Britain in World War 2.
What is another name for an army officers stick?
The swagger stick can also be called a staff, a baton, pace stick or a crop.
