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    Another Normandy Story...Wehrpass

    This is the story of KARL-Heinz WAGNER, one of thousands Soldiers with this Name during the war,born on 1.3.1922 in Bochum in Westphalia in the region of Arnsberg ,north west of Germany,
    Karl-Heinz is catholic.When he was only 3 years old in 1925 he lost his father and only 3 years after also the mother.
    It ll be probably a difficult Infancy.

    this is his Wehrpass
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    Aged 18 is called up in military district of Dortmund where he was found fit for duty on 13 december 1940.
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        he was called up on 15 Aprile 1942 when he was 20 and assigned for a few months to some Flak units that were equipped with night floodlights based in Rendsburg,
        Duisburg and other cities in the north of germany.He learns how to use the K98 and the 60 cm night floodlight.
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          The first city Karl Heinz went while on duty in Rendsburg
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            On February 1943 Karl Heinz decides that it was time for him to change and Decide to do something more thrilling than staying in flak and Luftwaffe reserve units so he joins an elite unit...the Paratroopers!
            He probably knew that an FJ life was hard enough but i think that he felt he was mentally hard and prepared especially after he grown up without parents.
            He goes in an FJ school in Braunschweig and then sent to train around Vannes in Bretagne..
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              And in the Areas of Nimes e Ales south of France.
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                He then gets assigned to the 14th Company of FJR6,The antitank Company where he learns to use new weapons like MG34,MG42,Luger,antitank guns of 4,2 Cm and Pak 5cm.
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                  While in the FJR6(Unit that will become one of the most famous FJ regiments)he receives his only promotion to Gefreiter(corporal).
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                    From 1.8.43 al 31.3.44 in the Dresden FJ school he starts the training to become a real FJ and jump from planes!
                    In that period he is sent to Italy in Ostia and then during the Famous Italian 8 September he is in Rome to fight the Italian troops of Badoglio.
                    After that while still in Italy he sees the frontline for the first time in Roccasecca Near Cassino in december 1943 and then in Orsogna in january 1944!
                    This is a picture of some FJs in roccasecca near Cassino.
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                      While in Italy in the Orsogna front on the Gustav Line,on 1.2.1944 Karl Heinz Receives the badge that states he s a real elite soldier,the Fallschirmjäger Badge!
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                        He was then called back to France where he gets reassigned to a real FJ unit,the Fallschirmjäger regiment 8 that is allocated in Bretagne under the command of the 3rd FJ division waiting for the landing of the allies...
                        The page with the list of places where Karl Heinz has been.
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                          The allies finally land and the FJD3 Fallschirmjäger Division 3 starts marching toward the front,as the entry is shown in the wehrpass,where it will have bitter fightings.
                          One third of the division is motorized but the rest of the division has to march by foot or takin horses and donkeys from farms to march from the breton town of Guingamp to Avranches,about 200 KMs
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                            In July The Frontline in normandy shows the allies facing the germans in front of St.Lo where the 352 ID defends the city in the middle with the 17 ss Pz.Gren.Division on the left and with the 3rd FJD on the right,east of St.Lo. where Karl Heinz was fighting with his FJR8 located more in the right compared to the other 3 FJ regimentsi that compsed the division.
                            The Division protected the line that went froma Saint-Germain-d’Elle, Couvains and Bérigny.
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                              And in Saint-Germain-d’Elle where the 14th Antitank Company was positioned,Karl-Heinz Wagner on 15 July 1944 during the attack of the American 2nd and 29th Infantry Divisions Americana,
                              Lost his life aged only 22.He ll be one of the 436 FJ soldiers that the Division lost during the battle of St.Lo.
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