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Hopefully members will be able to help. And thanks for the additions to the Signature Database - any and all additions are very welcome.

I have a KG-53 Wehrpass & citation set to an air gunner/radio operator who also flew on 10 air-launched V-1 operations against the UK - listed in the Wehrpass as 10 Sondereinsatz gegen England. A good book covering the air-launched V-1 campaign is Air Launched Doodlebugs by Peter Smith.

I can't be 100% sure but I believe it is the English translation of his German book on the unit... http://www.amazon.com/Kampfgeschwader-Legion-Condor-Erlebnisse-Dokumente/dp/3879439478/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379017615&sr=8-1&keywords=chronik+Kampfgeschwader+53 But it is cheaper to buy it from the UK Amazon site than it is from the US one (for once!)... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chronik-Kampfgeschwader-53-Legion-Condor/dp/3613031760/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379017651&sr=1-2&keywords=Kampfgeschwader+%22Legion+Condor%22+53

Are you aware that an English language history of KG-53 is soon to be published?: http://www.amazon.com/Kampfgeschwader-53-%2522Legion-Condor%2522-Complete/dp/0764344757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379008602&sr=8-1&keywords=9780764344756

That is an outstanding set, especially with the Flugbüch entries.

Hauptmann Karl-Horst von Wulffen Inf.Rgt 6 Führer Div.Fus.Btl (A.A) 32

Can anyone idenitfy this signature please? It belongs to the Commander of Landesschützen/Sicherungs Btl 642 in February-April 1942. Lexikon lists a Hauptmann von Hartmann in June 1942 but this doesn't look like 'von Hartmann' to me.

Major Ludwig Straub Chef 1./Pz.Abw.Abt 45 Kdr Pz.Abw.Ers.Abt 17

Generalleutnant Iwan Heunert. Born: 28th Aug 1886 Died: 6th May 1977 Cdr 58 ID Cdr Rear-Army-Area 525 Image: Citation

Can anyone identify this signature please of the Battalion commander of III/Inf.Rgt 220 with a date of April to July 1941...

Civil driving license for a member of Inf.Rgt 5 & 220 who would be KIA in July 1941...

Major Josef Rintelen. Born: 7th Mar 1897 Died: 14th Jul 1981 Highest rank reached: Generalleutnant Chef 1./Inf.Rgt 5 Kdr I/Inf.Rgt 94 Kdr I/Inf.Rgt 478 Kdr Inf.Rgt 222 Kdr Inf.Rgt 931 Kdr Gren.Rgt 713 Kdr 357 Inf.Div Ritterkreuz - 5th Aug 1940 DKiG - 1st Feb 1945 Image: Wehrpass

Hauptmann Heinz Fontana. 3./KG zbV 102 IV/TG 4 Staffelkapitän 3./TG 1 Ehrenpokal 5th June 1943 Image: Wehrpass

Hauptmann Fritz Selzer. Highest rank reached: Major d.R Adjutant LG-1 Flieger Ersatz Btl III Image: Wehrpass

SS-Sturmbannführer Anton Wellbrock. Born: 21st May 1911 Died: 22nd Nov 1983 I/SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt 3 Chef 3./SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt 4 Kdr SS-Pz.Gren.Ausb.u.Ers.Btl 9 Stralsund Image: Promotion Document

Nice little Normandy related set and with the units linking with each other with one being used to form the other. As you have noticed, AR 352 of 352 ID became 1352 when the Infanterie-Division was reformed as a Volksgrenadier Division.

It is a pity that so little is known about the smaller units in the Kriegsmarine but that is a nice set indeed.

His flight to 60km west of London came a day after the Luftwaffe changed tactics in the Battle and switched their attacks to London. Details for 8th September 1940 Details for 11th September 1940 Details for 14th September 1940

Looks like he spent June-December 1940 with 1./JG-27.

Does his pilots license show any entries that indicate what front line unit he flew with? Is that Jagdgeschwader 3 that I can see on the image of the inside page of the Flugbuch?

Your best bet might be books on the unit's history or try and find out if his personnel file is held at one of the archives.

I like the first one. Can't tell if it is hand signed or stamped/printed but it is the signature of Rudolf Stahl (Deutscher Industrieller, Vorsitzender des Hauptausschusses Munition im Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition).

As mentioned , it is a nice document. Lützow has a very distinctive signature and is probably one of my favourite signatures purely due to how it looks!

I suppose it could be plausible but why wouldn't he of just kept the front cover (and the first page) of the Soldbuch that would of already had a photo & details of him on it? It is the first time I have seen a date stamp like that to authenticate anything as the rest I have seen have been denazified eagle stamps and if he was already a PoW by this stage why isn't it an Allied equivalent? But obviously how can we know for sure what the circumstances were on the day. At the end of the day it is an item that would be hard to prove or disprove either way and my gut feeling says 60:40 that this is ok.

Judging by the folds on both citations, both horizontal & vertical, it would like as if they were both folded and stored together - possibly in a Soldbuch or something similar. When it comes to the database, one of the Pinned Threads is an alphabetical index which should help locating particular examples.