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AOP2B
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18 Mar 2020
10:14:39am
Came in the large collection recently purchased and was hoping someone could let me know more about it...

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Best wishes,

Brian.

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SForgCa
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18 Mar 2020
01:17:04pm
re: What do I have here?

The small boats look like Raumbots (R-Boot)
They served as minesweepers or escorts and went through many changes
Most were used along Norway's coast

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18 Mar 2020
06:33:33pm

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re: What do I have here?

Always a challenge to decipher what was written. As far as I can make it out, it says:

right side:

Feldpost

Heinrich Langwieler
Gevelsberg i/ Westf.
Unter Barken


left side:

An Bord, 12.3.41

Ihr Lieben!
Die herzlichsten GrĂ¼sse aus
weiter Ferne sendet Euch

Euer Neffe Willi
matrose Willi Hogge
Feldpostnummer M06819


Short translation:

To Heinrich Langwieler in Gevelsberg, Westphalia, Unter Barken

On board, 12 March 41

Dear ones,
The kindest regards from far away are sent to you by your nephew sailor Willi Hogge, Field mail number M06819

(Corrected 19 March)

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dollhaus
18 Mar 2020
09:46:22pm
re: What do I have here?

The warship in the background looks like a light cruiser - either the Leipzig or the Nurnberg. That class had a triple turret forward and two aft for a total of 9 150mm as main armamnet.

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19 Mar 2020
04:03:23am
re: What do I have here?

The missing word seems to be "Ferne", hence "aus weiter Ferne" = "from far away". The place or street name in the last line of the address is Unter Braken (today Unterbraken, a small suburb of Gevelsberg, itself a smallish town halfway between Remscheid and Hagen). The recipient's last name is Langwieler. People of that name still live there. Langweiler (= boring person) might have been funnier, though ...

The former Kriegshafen (naval port) in Kiel is now known as Tirpitzhafen, named after the admiral and politician Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930).

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19 Mar 2020
04:14:19am

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re: What do I have here?

Makes sense. Probably correct. I did not recognize the "F", thought it was a capital S. I could not imagine it was an actual geographical place, as it would not have passed the censors.

I thought Langweiler was a bit funny but now I see I switched the i and e.
"Braken" was not something I would have made from the writing.

Thank you for the corrections and additions!

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