Some WP & SB of the 26 Panzer Division

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Nice additions Oriano ! Very interesting. I love Pz Pionier Batl. unit, but I have only one (Pz Pio. Btl. 86/9. Pz Div.)...

many thanks Luft76!
ciao Oriano

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as interlude a beautiful document dalways September 13, 1944 while, as we saw the 26 Pz.Div. fought in Coriano ....
A quittance-cyclostilate from the Division Command of the 26 Pz.Div, based in Santarcangelo di Romagna, behind the Marecchia River, 10 km from Coriano, (where the division will fight heavily a few days later) of a "purchase" (practically a requisition that will pay no one!) of a forage and a pig of 120 kg .....

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I continue with another small lot of the 26 Panzer Grenadier Division

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Wehrpass released to Paul Mannsperger on May 1936 in Stuttgart.

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His half erkennungsmarke (as we will see later Paul falls to Rimini in early October 1944)

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Born on November 17, 1914, orphaned by both parents, professing "werkzuegmacher" mechanical

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Enlisted in october 1934 in the Infanterie Regiment 9

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And the numerous postponement until the end of 1943 probably for his mechanical work

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and after the JR 9 of the 1934, in November 1943 he was enlisted in the motorized troops, in the Grenadier-Ersatz-Battalion 35

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Paul arrived in Italy on Anzio/Nettuno's front in March 20, 1944, in the Panzer-Grenadier Regiment 1027, an independent unit of the 14th Army. So on July 15, the Pz.Gre.Reg. 1027 was absorbed by the Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 9 of the 26 Pz.Gre.Div, with which he already fought alongside in Tuscany ...

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Melder.... Infanteriepioniere.... his promotion

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His PAB at Anzio (see map) and his EK2 in Rimini ......

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the Panzer-Grenadier Regiment 1027 receive in January 1944, 14 Marder III ( two nice photos of Marder on Anzio area)

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health notes

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And on the synthetic page of his campaigns in Italy, only the reference of his two regiments


After Anzio and Nettuno and the retreat from Rome, the Pz.Gren.Reg. 1027 fights in Southern Tuscany, where on July 15th, on the Cecina River, the 1027 wasd absorbed by the Panzer-grenadier-Regiment 9, and the Pz.Gren.Reg. 9 crossed the battle of the Tuscany until mid August 1944 on the Arno river (west of Florence) so it is transferred to the Gothic line on the Adriatic front