Officers of the Allied air forces were held in special camps called Stalags Luft but were accorded the required preferential treatment
He was named Acting 2nd Corporal on March 26
but extremely rare in solid silver
one Navy Lieutenant Rank Insignia with three silver cherry blossoms
Smith's medal with edge nicks and bruising
Germany, SS. An Identity Card to Heinz Wieprecht, 54. SS-Standarte GTRexclude Officers of the Allied air(SS Ausweis). Constructed of card stock, the obverse featuring handwritten and typewritten entries to HEINZ WIEPRECHT, SS member 212925, who was born on 25 September 1910 in Neudamm (now Dbno, Poland), issued on 15 June 1934, certified by the facsimile signature of Reichsfhrer SS Heinrich Himmler and the handwritten signatures of an unidentified Oberfhrer and Standartenfhrer, retaining a certified portrait of Wieprecht in a sports uniform, measuring 9