Infantry Assault Badge ~ Battle Damage!

[ChrisKelly]

[TracA]

Chris,

 

Fascinating. That is, to me, an iconic and often reproduced photo. I never noticed the damage to the Infantry Assault Badge. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

All the best,

 

Tracy

[ChrisKelly]

The wearer was identified as Oberleutnant Friedrich Konrad Winkler, commander 6.kompanie/577.Infanterie-Regiment/305.Infanterie-Division, and the photograph was made in Stalingrad, sometime in early Autumn 1942.

 

Sources:

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/305th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)

 

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/infanterie-sturmabzeichen-forum/my-258537/

 

https://stabswache-de-euros.blogspot.com/2012/10/hauptmann-friedrich-konrad-winkler.html?m=1

 

http://www.argunners.com/story-behind-famous-stalingrad-photograph/

 

https://stoessisheroes.com/meet-the-heroes-german-hauptmann-friedrich-konrad-winkler/

 

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/stalingrad-nfantry-assault-badges/

 

 

Edited December 24, 2024 by ChrisKelly

[TracA]

Thank you for the information and excellent links.

 

Tracy

[xxx]

see the pic and knowing this was Heeresgruppe Süd on the way to stalingrad. there are a lots of pictures showing german soldiers with this helmet cover made locally from captured sowjet camouflage material mabe over winter and spring 1941/42. the best picture with this helmet cover is this here

one soldier on the pic above have also this kind of helmet cover, maybe the same unit, pics making by the same man.

it was common, have seen pics with german soldiers with helmet cover made from american camouflage material in normandy 1944.

 

Edited December 29, 2024 by xxx