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The Ersatz-truppenteil was SS, so it would be rather unlikely he served in an regular Heer unit.
Perhaps it's SS-PzGren-Reg. 26 which was part of the 12. SS-PzGrenDiv. "Hitlerjugend". That Div. was in the Normandy area.

*edit* looks like Albert beat me to it

This not the case, my grandfather was captured April 28, 1945 around Dachau. I am really having a hard time figuring out what my grandfather did towards the end of the war. I guess he was one those isolated units that reached the western front. The unit you mention last, Bewacher-Batallion Randt se...

Flieger Ausb. Reg. 43 was formed in '39 from the Flieger-Ersatz-Abt. 43 in Crailsheim. Commanders were Oberst Hans Poetsch and later Oberstleutnant Albert Schlack. It was moved to Wien-Stammersdorf in october '39 and back to Crailsheim in september '40. Fl.-Ausb.-Reg. 13 then, I can't find anything ...

Hi, Could you give some more information, like was your grandpa already in the Austrian Army before the Anschluß?? If not, which year was he drafted, or did he join the Wehrmacht?? The changing feldpost number doesn't necesserally mean he changed units, a unit's feldpost number could change during t...

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