Originally Posted by derjager
That is quite an event considering all the officials and support staff along with the marksmen.

--dj--Joe


Yes, these were big, important festivals. Not only for propaganda, but also for morale which is why they allowed the use of enamel on the South Tirol pieces in 1944.

Below are the only Kreisschiessen badges from the East Tirol, Lienz to be exact. 1944 was also their first official Kreisschiessen. I say "official" because they also held one in 1943, but did not have badges of their own to award, they used the small shield shaped general gauleistung lapel badges given out in Tirol-Vorarlberg. I haven't discovered an documented reason for this yet, but I suspect it was down to either late planning of the shoot of lack of funds....

Don

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