Tomorrow my birthday, today a little present

[Angel Farré]

A very nice soldbuch with very interesting entries. It receive some extra pages and used an imaginative system, dismounted the book, added the pages and cut the extra pages not usable.

First a picture of our soldier, Horst Mainz, at the high point of his career as a Leutnant, it was glued, not stapled or riveted.

Angel

[Angel Farré]

His personal details and the confirmation of his promotions, look that here we have one of the extra pages dismissed as not necesary.

Angel

[Angel Farré]

His units and other discharged page.

Angel

[douglynn]

have a nice day tommrow

[Angel Farré]

His final units.

Angel

[Angel Farré]

He used a personal pistol, a 7.65 mm CZ27

Angel

[Angel Farré]

In combat he used something a little more contundent, but what????? an MP GB?????????

Angel

[Angel Farré]

Thanks Doug.

Now his awards, first his EK II, IAB and EK I.

Angel

[Angel Farré]

Now his OStmedaille and his Black Wound Badge.

Angel

[Angel Farré]

He received the Nahkampfspange in bronze (as a curiosity in his Soldbuch are only listed 13 days)

Angel

[douglynn]

on the inside cover does it say near his pic italy? naples

[Angel Farré]

And now the main atraction of this little book, Silver Wound Badge, Deutsches Kreuz in Gold and an unlucky meet with a bunch of Americans (for the americans who lost his vehicle, surely a total disaster, I don't want ot know what his insurance company say when they presented the accident note: "well, we go by our right and then a nazi Panzerfaust appears in our direction and we have no way to avoid the clash and the bastard run away without giving us hiw insurance company"

Angel

[douglynn]

cz27

[Angel Farré]

Yes, his POW ID in Naples, Italy.

Angel

[necker]

A stunning soldbuch with extra ordinary entrys. Had the war lastet, this "draufganger" surly whould have had the RK.

Pleasure seeing it.

Best regards,

Erich