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    hucks216

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    1. Here is the card file from Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/301613) for Gerd von Brauchitsch.
    2. Did this come direct from the family to you without any middlemen? If not then it is highly likely that the actual awards were added to the paperwork to increase the profit for the seller which happens a lot. Nice little set of paperwork though with the EK citation signed by Dr Friedrich Altrichter who died in a Russia PoW camp in 1948/49. Part of his card file in Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/299316) For others, here is Thurau's casualty card. Unfortunately, it looks like he is not listed in the Volksbund so his body has never been recovered and is currently not listed or updated in their database. This is a section of the German situation map for the HG Nord frontline just three days before he died with 58.Infanterie-Division bottom left (courtesy of Lexikon der Wehrmacht). .
    3. Ernst-Günther Wilhelm Karl von Schuckmann Born: 06 May 1899 Died: 08 Sept 1970 Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant (Regierungsrat 1957) Adjutant des Wehrbezirks Paderborn Adjutant des Artillerieersatzregiments 6 Adjutant der Kommandantur von Graudenz Adjutant der 306. Infanteriedivision Adjutant des Generalkommandos z.b.V. Mieth kommandiert zum Stab des LXI. Reservekorps Adjutant des LXI. Reservekorps Adjutant des XXXIII. Armeekorps (Information via AHF thread)
    4. Hauptmann Friedrich-Wilhelm von Wedelstaedt Born: 14 April 1895 Died: 15 March 1973 Highest rank reached: Oberst Gruppenleiter I, Feldzeuginspektion (OKH/AHA/Fz In) Chef des Stabes Feldzeuginspektion (OKH/AHA/Fz In) DKiS: 10 Oct 1944 (Information courtesy of Dave Danner in a AHF thread)
    5. One item I was able to tick off the collecting bucket list this year was acquiring a prelim RK citation. I would have been happy for an example to anyone, but to have obtained the citation for a significant General was more than I expected. The RK & Gold Wound Badge citations are for eventual General der Artillerie Erich Marcks. In 1940 he was tasked with drawing up a draft proposal for what would become Operation Barbarossa and during Op Barbarossa he commanded 101.leichte Infanterie-Division which was part of 17.Armee in Heeresgruppe Süd. On 26th June 1941 he was severely wounded which resulted in him having his left leg amputated. It was during this period that he was awarded the Knights Cross. It was awarded for the performance of his division during the opening days of Barbarossa, especially the crossing of the San river northeast of Przemysl and the subsequent battle against a Soviet bunker line at Medyka. During the period of his recovery, he commanded first 337.Infanterie-Division and then LXXXVII.Armeekorps which were both based in France. On 1st August 1943 he was placed in command of LXXXIV.Armeekorps that was responsible for what would become the D-Day sector. Marcks was one of the few senior officers who believed that an invasion in Normandy was a possibility and upon the Allies landing ordered a counterattack which ultimately failed. Here he is in the film The Longest Day, played by the German actor Richard Münch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YnMaNTx30 On 12th June 1944 while touring the front northwest of Saint-Lô, his staff car came under attack from Allied aircraft and Marcks was hit by a 20mm shell. Despite his driver dragging him to a ditch, the injury was too severe and Marcks died of blood loss. He was posthumously awarded the Knights Cross with Oakleaves and now lies buried in the cemetery at Marigny - Block 2, Row 38, Grave 1478. The following documents and clippings are from his files in the Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/300187 & PERS 6/269)
    6. 164,000+ views of this outstanding thread cannot be wrong. The Index has now been upated:
    7. I'm never surprised what people do and do not collect. I've seen people buy groups of citations, keep the Ostmedaille citation and then sell the remainder and others who buy Soldbücher just to keep the front cover with the photo and sell the coverless Soldbuch.
    8. In this French notice it mentions the death of a Captain Charles Trott who died in a French PoW camp in Verdun on 8th February 1806. He was from Woodbridge in Suffolk but the period French notice mentions that he was a Captain in the 'Scottish Marching Battalion' (unless it has been mistranslated). Any idea what unit that could be and where his service records might reside?
    9. Hauptmann Alfred Bischkowski Born: 17 Jan 1915 Stab/KG 53 Staffelkapitän 10./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 9./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 8./KG 4 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)
    10. Oberleutnant Franz-Josef Maubach Highest rank reached: Hauptmann A/Flieger-Ausbildungs-Rgt 62 Staffelkapitän 11./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 13./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 4./KG 53 DKiG: 19 May 1943 Ehrenpokal: 07 Oct 1941 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)
    11. Oberleutnant Emil Allmendinger Born: 18 Feb 1913 Highest rank reached: Major I/KG 53 Staffelkapitän 1./KG 53 Lehrgangsleiter Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald Chef 1.Kp Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald Flugleiter I/Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald Ausbildungs Gr.Leiter FFS C 15 Kdr III/KG 53 Kdt Platzkommando Eggebek / Fliegerhorst Kdtr A9o) 3/XI DKiG: 14 Feb 1942 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)
    12. Major Alarich Hofmann Born: 28 June 1903 Died: 27/28 Dec 1942 - MIA in Murmansk area Highest rank reached: Oberst (Posthumous) Staffelkapitän 3./KG 53 Ia Stab/IV Fliegerkorps Chef d.Stabes IV Fliegerkorps Kdr I/KG 30 DKiG: 09 April 1942 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)
    13. Oberstleutnant Paul Weitkus Born: 17 Oct 1898 Died: 09 Nov 1974 Highest rank reached: Generalmajor Kdr II/KG 252 Kdt Fliegerhorst Liegnitz Staffelkapitän 3./KG 26 Kommodore KG 53 Kdr Kampfbeobachtervorschule 1 Kdr He-111-Verbände zur Versorgung im Osten Kdr I.Rumänischen Fliegerkorps Fliegerführer Albanien Fliegerverbindungs-Offz to Heeresgruppe E Kdr Luftflottentruppen/Luftflotte 4 Kdr 18.Fliegerdivision RK: 18 Sept 1941 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)
    14. Some nice examples. Wehrmacht wedding photo portraits make an interesting collecting field.
    15. Hauptmann Gerrit Wiegmink Born: 30 July 1909 Died: 24 March 1944 - shot down Sønder-Tranders (Denmark) Highest rank reached: Major Stab/Küstenfliegergruppe 706 Staffelkapitän 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 (attached to the battlecruiser Scharnhorst 1940) Gruppenkommandeur Bordfliegergruppe 196 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)
    16. General der Infanterie Briesen, Kurt Alfred Otto Erimar von Born: 03 May 1883 Died: KIA 20 November 1941 Kdr 30.Infanterie-Division Kdr LII.Armeekorps RK: 27 October 1939 (Stamped signature)
    17. Major Hermann Lessing Born: 20 October 1900 Died: 29 May 1990 Highest rank reached: Oberst / Kapitän zur See Transferred from Kriegsmarine to Luftwaffe in 1937 Staffelkapitän 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 - onboard Scharnhorst Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 706 Lufttransportführer (See) Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 906 Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 706 Verbindungsoffizier OKL to OKM/Skl XIII. Fliegerkorps Kommandeur Navigationschule Strausberg Possible Seeaufklärungsgruppe 130 Transferred from Luftwaffe to Kriegsmarine Kommandierender Admiral der Unterseeboote Kommandeur U-1231 Ehrenpokal: 26 October 1942
    18. Oberleutnant Otto Hunnius Born: 08 December 1915 Died: MIA 11/12 May 1943 - reported MIA during a sortie to mine the Thames & Humber estuaries Highest rank reached: Hauptmann 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 - onboard Gneisenau Führer der Seeluftstreitkräfte West 3.(M)/Küstenfliegergruppe 806 1./LG 1 Staffelkapitän 11./KG 6 Staffelkapitän 7./KG 6
    19. Oberleutnant Walter Haasemann Born: 28 April 1922 Died: MIA 10 December 1943 3./KG 3 DKiG: 20 March 1944
    20. Oberleutnant Hans Schönberger Born: 14 August 1914 Highest rank reached: Hauptmann KG 3 Kp-Chef Horst-Kp/Fliegerhirst Kdtr A Riga-Spilve Stab I/KG 3 Staffelführer 3./KG 3 IV/KG 3 DKiG: 16 February 1943 Ehrenpokal: 24 November 1941
    21. Hauptmann Gustav Quaas Born: 29 July 1912 Died: MIA December 1942 - various sources give date as 1, 10 & 18th December Grosse KFS Lechfeld Staffelkapitän 3./KG 3 DKiG: 24 Sept 1942 Ehrenpokal: 04 May 1942
    22. It looks like the bataillon was part of Reserve-Grenadier-Rgt 209 of Division Nr 174 which was formed in Chemnitz in July 1940. It was renamed 174.Reserve-Division in September 1942 in Lublin and in July 1944 it was absorbed by 26.Infanterie-Division. Unfortunately, what records exist for '174' have yet to be digitised and made available online so can only be copied by attending the archives in person or hiring a researcher: https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio/direktlink/422a871e-9228-42f4-a6ab-5448272aed2e/
    23. If anyone wishes to obtain copies of Tessin (think Lexikon der Wehrmacht site but in book form), the Bundesarchiv have made all the volumes available for free download: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/DE/Content/Artikel/Benutzen/Hinweise-zur-Benutzung/Unterseiten-Militaer/Militaerische-Verbaende-und-Einheiten/benutzen-speziell-milit-verbaende-einheiten-tessin.html
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