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

THE END OF THE AFRIKA KORPS

Between 1941 and 1943 there were a total of 260,000 German troops in North Africa. Of this number 18,594 were killed and 3,400 posted as missing. The rest who did not make it out of Africa in 1943 mostly ended up as PoWs taken either by the British and Commonwealth troops or the Americans. The treatment of prisoners by both sides was on the whole very good. There were isolated incidents of shooting prisoners on both sides but these were very few and far between and captured prisoners on both sides who required medical attention were given the best treatment as the situation permitted. Many British and commonwealth prisoners were surprised at fair treatment they received from the Afrika Korps when captured. The same can be said for the the German prisoners.

German Fallschirmjäger POWs belonging to the Ramke Brigade captured by Australian troops at El Alamein.

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

Manfred Rommel - Very sad news today...

The former mayor of Stuttgart, Manfred Rommel the son of Erwin Rommel, has died today, 07 November 2013, at the age of 84 in is hometown Stuttgart, Germany. Was born in 24 December 1928. RIP

AFRIKA KORPS DOCUMENTS

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

HELMUTH ORSCHIEDT 2013

Mr. Helmuth Orschiedt, an Afrikakorps veteran, that take part on the North African theatre from 1941 to 1943. He send me a picture taken in May 2013. Mr. Helmuth Orschiedt born May 9, 1923 and turn is 90 anniversary.

You can read more about it  here: http://deutsches-afrikakorps.blogspot.pt/2010/12/helmuth-orschiedts-war-in-africa.html

"Taken on 9th May 2013 - 68 years after the war ended. In 1945 I was 22 years old and glad I had survived"

GENERAL DER PANZERTRUPPE HANS CRAMER

Picture by courtesy of Nicolas Leste, WebPage: La Fuite