Mario 33, you say you like good photos. I have just the place for you to get them from. Have you ever heard of a thing called a BOOK. A BOOK is what a person buys to do their research. Infact before forums and the advent of a google search people liked them so much they bought loads of BOOKS.mario33 wrote: there photos - right - any to prove it ? I like good photos Is as simple as that - post them You may have tens of them - count them carefully. then count those WITHOUT medals, divide both numbers by themselved. If you get lower than 1% (that I am 99.999999% sure ) - you would get the answer to your question of rule...
PS: we are still talking "in the field/combat", right ? Still - really raring to see all those dozens of combat pics. I miss real combat pics very much.
BOOKS are what you use to look up things in, not asking on forums all the time. BOOKS come out on lots of different sections of the German army in WW2. You buy the BOOK of the part of the army that interests you. You can buy BOOKS on uniforms, guns, different divisions withing the army, even nude girly pictures.
If you had a BOOK you could look up pictures of soldiers in combat and see that every second soldier running round has Abzeichen on his uniform.
A lack of medals could also be explained by the fact they had to be earned, and at that stage they hadnt yet been earned.