Captain Chuck Bult, commander of the 2nd Armored M.P. Company sold me some of Tychsen's photos and his cuffband and .25 Mauser pistol. That was in 1995, and that purchase started research which led to my 3rd book, 'Breakout at Normandy' (MBI pub. 1999). As you can see from the postings above, I also got a number of other W-SS insignia from him. Being a Dutch-American and not long-removed from the old country, he was well-aware of the elite status of the battlefield SS and treated the prisoners accordingly. He always swapped a bar of soap or pack of smokes for a PW's badge or insignia. Most GIS simply took whatever they wanted from the prisoners.
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