Hi, I am Sig (junge1),
I was born in Dominikus- Krankenhaus in Berlin-Hermsdorf, Bezirk Reinickendorf in December 1939. Bezirk Reinickendorf was one of 20 Bezirke that made up Gross-Berlin before World War II and one of 12 Bezirke that made up former West-Berlin, the other 8 Bezirke were Russian occupied and became East-Berlin after the war. Moved from Berlin to Neurohlau (Nova Role) Sudetenland (now Czech Republic), in August 1943 (our entire block of apartment buildings was bombed out in November 1943) and returned back to Berlin in November 1945. Saw my dad the first time in my life in August/September 1946 after he returned from POW camp. Attended elementary school in Berlin-Waidmannslust, high school in Berlin-Hermsdorf, and trade school in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Was an apprentice for the trade of Klischeeaetzer (photo engraver) at Burrath & Schmidt on Friedrichstrasse between U-Bahnhof Kochstrasse (near to what later became Checkpoint Charlie) and Hallisches Tor.
While watching Allied planes supplying West-Berlin by air during the Berliner Luftbruecke in 1948-49 I developed my love for aircraft. I guess I could be considered a 'Berliner Grosschnauze", or at least I used to be.
'Wanderlust' led me to leave Berlin in summer 1960 to emigrate to Toronto, Canada and in February 1962 to move from Canada to New York City, NY, USA. In January 1963 I joined the United States Air Force, one step ahead of Uncle Sam drafting me. Became a United States citizen within 7 weeks after it became a security issue because of my military career. One day after I was sworn in as a citizen in Seattle, my entire unit left for Southeast Asia in June 1966. After nearly 5 years of active duty (extended 11 months to make it an 18 months overseas deployment) I got discharged and moved to New York City. In 1973 I moved to Phoenix, Arizona and two years later joined the Arizona Air National Guard.
Received my higher education at Arizona State University and the University of Georgia and worked for 22 years for the Arizona Department of Water Resources in various capacities. Upon military retirement in 1999 and State retirement in 2005 I looked at a number of things to keep me occupied. Traveling and joining 'renderosity' in September 2007 were a couple of them,
Sig..
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Comments (16)
virginiese Online Now!
Great light and nice car ! I sure would like to have a ride in this car :-)
Janiss
Houaaa such marvelous view... fantastic capture Sig!
jeroni
superb image, the colors are really fantastic
timtripp
kewel!
SapUS59
excellent captur my friend, it looks like your getting some great days here in the states for photography !!
amlondono
Great shot , nice View Sig ! Ana
durleybeachbum
Very pretty, but give me an estate car every time!
JeffG7BRJ
Nice pov Sig, I see on the plate 09 I am puzzled by this as we are in 08, does it have anything to do with the date? I see there is an annual subscription for the plate, does it mean that it expires 09, similar to the UK's Tax Disc? We have to pay £120.00 about $240.00 per annum for Road Tax plus we pay about .70pence tax per litre of petrol. Beautiful car but it would cost too much to run over here, petrol is due to rise again shortly. Bravo!!!!!
mizoli
Excellent capture!
mickuk50
the rear looks as good as the front which not all cars can boast .another excellent shot sig :o) mick
jocko500
wonderful and wonderful imformation on this
ledwolorz
Beautiful car and fantastic photo.
Hendesse
Excellent clear and detailled shot. Fantastic light!
olivier158
so sexy ....
Richardphotos
truly a work of art and your capture is outstanding
delaorden_ojeda
it is a fantastic german car, may be some people do not know that BMW used to make air plane motors when the war start, excelent capture my friend !