WWII USN 1946 Operation Crossroads Bikini Atoll Highjump & Dog Tags BM1c RAREOperation Highjump Cards hand Signed by Admiral Richard Byrd Wonderful Original WWII USN to 1947/8 Collection of Cards and Tags to Included 1946 Operation Cross Roads Bikini Atoll then Boatswains Mate 1st Class ‘William H. Irwin’ USS Arkansas Joint Task Force One Atomic Bomb Test Participation Card. Operation Highjump Cards: Domain of the Penguin / Domain of Neptunus Rex Serving Aboard ‘USS Yancey’ AKA-93 both Signed to the Reverse by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Accompanied by Irwin’s USN Navy Personnel Identification Discs “Dog Tags” all to William Harold Irwin, who was serving aboard USS Lexington CV-2 on December 7, 1941 (see Muster Roll), further serving during WWII aboard: USS Block Island CVE-21, USS Lexington CV-16, USS Portland CA-33, USS Oahu ARG-5, and LST-846 (Muster Rolls available for all ships at Ancestry showing WH Irwin ‘360 15 84’)

A nice find from the Kurland Pocket.  This matching Belt and Buckle were found together, the leather is still in very good condition and could be used.  The Buckle seems to be the maker OLC as stamped on the buckle hook.  Priced to sell, remember the price you see is what you pay  – No Fees and Free Postaged Tracked. 

Probst was active in the German Army since 1934 with Infanterie Regiment 20. Medals: Sudetenland Medal, Infantry Assault Badge, War Merit Cross with Swords Second Class Service with: Infanterie Regiment Amberg 20 Infanterie Regiment 260 Infanterie Regiment 268 Sicherungs Regiment Russworm Sicherungs Regiment Seidel Sicherungs Regiment 30 Gruppe Heeresstreifendienst beim Panzer Armee Korps 4 Wehrmacht Streifen Lehrabt   According to his impressive battle calendar, Probst was a very experienced soldier. What was the Heeresstreifendienst? https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Ordnungstruppen/HWS.htm The Feldgendarmerie, which was primarily intended to monitor military order and discipline, was only able to a limited extent to monitor the soldiers due to its ties to large units and command offices. In addition, large areas of the German sphere of influence were not covered by local command posts (home war zone, parts of the occupied areas under civilian administration), so that initially there was hardly any control. In November 1939, these phenomena gave rise to the establishment of the army, air force and navy patrol services, which were combined on February 1, 1941 under the leadership of the OKW to form the “Wehrmacht patrol service”. The patrol units set up in 1940 as individual patrols or patrol companies by the respective command authorities were combined from 1941 into army patrol groups (later Wehrmacht patrol groups) and train guard departments. The task of monitoring the behavior of the individual soldier in public was later joined by the requirement to look after the soldiers by setting up refreshment stations, warming rooms, overnight accommodation, washrooms, etc. at railway junctions at home and in the occupied territories and at other places where suddenly strong concentrations of individually traveling soldiers appeared. For this purpose, the patrol services were then coupled with the organs of Wehrmacht travel (transport service offices, front control centers) and the mobile or stationary care facilities.   Comments: A very interesting role in the German Army, these guys were most feared by their own men, as the war went on they had ever more power to make decisions about deserters etc. Not often found such units. Comes with two reports on his behaviour as well as his western capture papers (discharge).