A Third Reich Baden Fire Service Officer's Belt Buckle Auction Archive units of the Japanese Fourteenth

units of the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army (under the command of General Tomoyuki Yamashita) brought the POWs back to their own camp

One lorry hit a tree

two bent corners

as the result of being carried in a Soldbuch for an extended period

officially numbered "3509"

A Third Reich Baden Fire Service Officer's Belt Buckle Auction Archive units of the Japanese FourteenthIn cast brass, unmarked reverse, measuring 48. 5 mm, worn, very fine. Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolias book Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, published in 2001.