AFRIKAKORPS NCO SQUAD LEADER - 1/6 Feldwebel Egon Metzler. From Dragon

My 1/9 scale figure representing a Deutsches Afrikakorps NCO Squad Leader, Feldwebel Egon Metzler. From Dragon 2001.

Made by Dragon Models Limited (DML) item number 70112 in 2001, this a 1/6 action figure. A NCO (non-commissioned officer or noncommissioned officer) Squad Leader from Deutshes Afrikakorps (DAK) in North Africa 1942. In German is unteroffizier.

This is a fully equiped figure like was sell in that time. I dont have the original box. Standard tropical uniform and equipment used by the DAK. Other figures here: http://rammhobby.blogspot.pt/

Help to identify some of the signatures in this card

This is a arequest from John Barber:

My father Laurie Barber fought against the Afrika Korp  in Operation Crusader with the 18th Battalion 2nd NZEF and also on Crete against the fallschirmjager.He visited Germany as a guest of the German Paratroopers Assn in 1963, prior to that he was invited to the Afrika Korps Reunion in 1962, unfortunately he could not attend both.

So for not attending the Afrika Korp reunion, my father was sent a post card from the reunion, with Frau Rommels signature on the front and on the back signatures of some of those Afrika Korp members who attended.Can you maybe post the attached pictures to your site and see if people can identify some of the signatures please
regards John Barber

john.carolyn@slingshot.co.nz

Rommel's son's account of his father's last moments

Death of the Desert Fox: Rommel's son's account of his father's last moments after Hitler ordered him to take a cyanide pill or be arrested

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254904/Letter-reveals-Rommels-son-account-general-fathers-moments-ordered-commit-suicide-Hitler.html

AFRIKA KORPS DOCUMENTS

Two german Postacards: 1) Rommel & axis emblems 2) Iron cross 2nd class - Thanks to Alessandro Vecchio

"Catch That Tiger"

The Tank Museum presents two letters that question the veracity of claims made in Botham and Montague’s 2012 title "Catch That Tiger"...

Tiger 131 from the The Tank Museum in England

http://www.tankmuseum.org/asset_arena/textual/12/bovtm_tank_times_feb_2012.pdf

VIDEO - 1942 The AfrikaKorps' Arab Recruits!

German amateur 8mm footage of the Afrika Korps giving the Combat Banner to Arab troops recruited in Tunisia. Integral, better quality re-masterized version.

THE SECRET WAR

Not all the battles was won on the battlefield. The intelligence, diplomacy and the secret operations, played an important role to both sides...

VIDEO - Afrikakorps, El Agheila 1941

Full 30min. video here:
http://hotfile.com/dl/13993154/1dad5b6/1941-04-18.avi.html

DAK RELATED COMIC BOOKS - Hellman of the Afrika Korps

Hellman of Hammer Force tells the story of Kurt Hellman, a German panzer commander who is not a member of the Nazi Party and offers no affiliation to Hitler or his minions. Hellman wants to fight a clean war for Germany, and so avoids the excesses of his Nazi SS and Gestapo comrades. He fights fairly and avoids taking life wherever possible, preferring to take prisoners instead.