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Hello Allan!

Here's a link to a short bio on Hüttner (although you probably know of it already)...

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Per ... erHans.htm


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Krollspell

Dale wrote:Where are the GD nuts ??

Here you go Dale... http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... r/IRGD.htm


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Krollspell

Not only must he had been one of the definitely last veterans from WWII when he died. That he also had witnessed a ceremony held in England in 1917 with veterans from the Crimean War of 1853-1856 is really mindboggling, what a perspective in time! These veterans must have been born in the 1820's and...

Corporal Frank Buckles, Last World War I Doughboy, Is Dead at 110. He served as an US Army Ambulance driver in France in 1918. Read more in the following article...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us/01 ... .html?_r=1


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Krollspell

Hello Dale! In Patzwall & Scherzer's "Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945" (2001), there's only one Gross mentioned that held a NCO rank and was connected to a schwere Panzer-Abteilung and that is Kurt Gross , who received the DKiG on 30.08.1944 as an Oberfeldwebel with the 3./(Fla)s.Pz.Abt. ...

One of the last (and successfull) cavalry charges were carried out on march 23, 1945 by the I./Kuban-Kos.Reit.Rgt. 4 under the command of Major Franz-Wilhelm Mach, see link...

viewtopic.php?f=47&t=16525


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Krollspell

John P. Moore wrote:Is there someone who can tell us how the family name is spelled in the Veit Scherzer book?

He is spelled Hubert-Erwin Meierdress in Veit Scherzer's "Ritterkreuzträger 1939-1945" (1st ed. 2005).


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Krollspell

My condolences for your and your family's loss Matthias. He survived the war to live a long life... R.I.P.


Respectful regards,

Christian (Doktor Krollspell)

Rommel definitely would have worn his EK (and other decorations as) as a young officer during the Great War. There was hardly any room for individual preferences on this matter for him back then. Here's link to a post that details Rommel's decorations during WWI (and many other biographical facts).....

Hello Jim! I can't help you with any good adresses for military relics and stuff, but the best bookshop for german military history (and a wide range of tin figures) is "Berliner Zinnfiguren & Preussisches Bücherkabinett" on Knesebeckstrasse 88, http://www.zinnfigur.com/ Regards, Kroll...

Maybe someone can give me the answer to the question: did 23 SS division 'Nederland' fought in Berlin? I read The German Defense of Berlin by W.Willemar where it says the following: 6. Remnants of other combat units, including the 9th Parachute Division and SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Nederl...

I'm wondering if anyone can identify these paratroopers who were awarded with the German Cross of Gold, seen here during an audience with Goering on 4 May 1944 I couldn't find any Fallschirmjäger of the 1. FJD that received their DKiG on this particular day, but Göring probably made the formal pres...

Hello Gentlemen! The men in the photos are survivors of the Battle for Monte Cassino monastery. Therefore they are likely to be veterans of the 1st FJ Division. This shortens the odds a little! There are lists of highly decorated members (RK and DKiG) of the 1. FJD in the following thread over at AH...

Hello Gentlemen! All this points to the fact, that none of the units above should be able to show up in Italy in January/February 1944 (and be equipped with Italian Semoventes !) and none should have the "desired" designation at that time either. However, from several sources (Busch (chapt...

Some good close-up photographs on the Sd.Kfz. 254 are shown here...

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/mittlere-g ... -rr-72.htm


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Krollspell