"The GIs were crazy about these
also... After the Elbe meeting and well into the late forties, they
traded bits of their insignia, cigarettes, lighters, & etc for
these. I even have a letter from a GI to his brother - in it he tells
about how many times he tried to meet up with a Soviet soldier to trade
for his "red star", but the former never met up with him...
They are pretty nifty, and of high quality.
I own about one hundred of these 1936 types, really. Eighty
percent-plus of them draw their provenance from GIs...
"
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from RichieC @ www.warrelics.eu
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