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The Desert War

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Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Six

15th January 2025 Going Postal 2269 Comments

In Part 5, I described how Afrika Korps Obergefrieter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about being strafed by the American Airforce, visiting the theatre in Tunis and staying at the home of an [more…]

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Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Five

8th January 2025 Going Postal 2771 Comments

In Part Four, I described how Afrika Korps Obergefrieter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about suffering in a sandstorm, retreating back through Libya into Tunisia, and his hopes for Christmas 1942. In late [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika” Part Four

18th December 2024 Going Postal 1956 Comments

In Part 3, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about food parcels he had sent to her, his imaginary coloured pencil sketch of the Nile and his hope [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Three

11th December 2024 Going Postal 2186 Comments

In Part 2, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Fraü H. Bronnold about not having had any leave, having his hair cut (“eine fläzte”) and drinking salty coffee. His next [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Two

27th November 2024 Going Postal 2284 Comments

In Part 1, I recounted what the Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Fraü H. Bronnold in his letter of the 2nd of May 1942. His next letter of the 31st of May [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part One

13th November 2024 Going Postal 2359 Comments

“Bei den Fraüen geschätzt” In my DAK militaria collection I have a series of Feldpost letters, starting in May 1942, sent by a Deutsche Afrika Korps soldier, Hans Walden, to a Fraü H. Bronnold in [more…]

20th Century

Desert Diorama, Part Three

4th September 2024 Going Postal 1702 Comments

Some model kits come with suitable figures to assemble but recently I have taken to buying figure kits made via rapid prototyping techniques by new manufacturers in China. The sculpting of these and also ICM [more…]

20th Century

Desert Diorama, Part Two

28th August 2024 Going Postal 2224 Comments

In parallel with building the baseboard, desert and buildings (see Part 1), I started to collect and assemble the DAK armour, vehicles and figures to populate the diorama. My preference is for kits made by [more…]

20th Century

Desert Diorama, Part One

21st August 2024 Going Postal 2029 Comments

As well as researching “Desert Mysteries” and the exploits of the “Desert Fox”, amongst my other hobbies is the construction of scale model dioramas. For a diorama, I design and build by hand the baseboard, [more…]

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