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**Ian Jewison** · 03-11-2008, 10:28 AM

Like all work tickets it recorded the date, a report on the journey, initial starting milage, start time, journey route and type of journey, technical data (fuel etc.), duration, arrival date, total distance and the signatue of the driver and passanger (user of the vehicle).

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**Ian Jewison** · 03-11-2008, 10:36 AM

This work ticket was filled in by Stabsgefreiter Görtz who drove this vehicle on 16 occassions between 22.1.-29.4.1945.
He covered at least 1767 Km during that time, however the last entry on 29.4.1945 has a start milage and time but no arrival time or distance.

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**Ian Jewison** · 03-11-2008, 10:46 AM

The final journey.

29.4.1945 at 10:00 hours. Transfer from airfield Tutow to Püttnitz.
Start milage (Km) was 24665.

Stabsgefreiter Görtz as the driver.

Interesting as Tutow and Püttnitz are not airfields where Schlachtgeschwader 1 were stationed!!!

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**Ian Jewison** · 03-11-2008, 10:58 AM

Of course Stabsgefreiter Görtz was a member of the kraftfahrzug, Stabskompanie, II Gruppe, Schlacht Geschwader 1.

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**Larry deZeng** · 03-11-2008, 12:10 PM

Thought this was different, a Fahrtnachweis or as we would say a work ticket!

The Air Ministry did indeed translate Fahrtnachweis as "work ticket", but your trans-Atlantic cousins usually used the term "trip ticket" or "triptic". This one was good for up to 30 trips. These are still used today in the world's military forces and by government motor pools.

--Larry

**Larry deZeng** · 03-11-2008, 12:15 PM

II./SG 1 for that time frame:

1 Dec 44: Gruppe reported 34 x FW 190F-8 on strength.
Jan 45: withdrew west to Mackfitz (Makowice)/62 km NE of Stettin (Szczecin).
19 Jan 45: 4.St. FW 190 shot down by AA fire near Krzynowloga/103 km N of Warsaw, 100%, pilot MIA.
21 Jan 45: operating from Wormditt (Orneta)/45 km E of Elbing (Elblag) in W Prussia with FW 190F-8s - heavily engaged against Soviet forces advancing rapidly toward the Baltic coast in the Danzig (Gdansk) area. Suffered high losses to enemy AA fire, including the Gruppenkommandeur Maj. Reusch, who was shot down south of Mohrungen and severely WIA. He was taken to a hospital in Danzig but died on 26 January.
23 Jan 45: FW 190 failed to return from operations in the Wormditt-Rahmel area, 100%, pilot MIA.
4 Feb 45: FW 190F-8 crash landed at Fp.Mackfitz after being shot up, 50%, pilot WIA.
4 Feb 45: at Rahmel (Rumia)/11 km NW of Gdingen (Gdynia).
11 Feb 45: FW 190F-8 crashed at Fp.Mackfitz due to engine failure, 100%, pilot WIA.
12 Feb 45: moved to or operating from Stettin-Altdamm this date.
1 Mar 45: now at Werneuchen/26 km NE of Berlin and still assigned to 4. Fliegerdivision.

**Panzer Rob** · 03-11-2008, 12:22 PM

Very nice and interesting document, Ian... Not something I am familiar with!

Thanks for sharing this with us.
Rob

**Ian Jewison** · 03-11-2008, 12:36 PM

Originally posted by Larry deZeng View Post

The Air Ministry did indeed translate Fahrtnachweis as "work ticket", but your trans-Atlantic cousins usually used the term "trip ticket" or "triptic". This one was good for up to 30 trips. These are still used today in the world's military forces and by government motor pools.

--Larry

To me Larry it is a work ticket

Yes, they are still in use and yes it did record 30 trips.

Not looked for it but I do have a work ticket/log book from the early 80's upstairs from when I was in the army....used for reference for an M/T NCO's course.....will dig it out if I can find it that is!

/Ian

**Larry deZeng** · 03-11-2008, 12:59 PM

Sorry, Ian, I should have said....."your misguided trans-Atlantic cousins"!

And I remember them, too, and from as far back as February 1958 in Mannheim-Feudenheim while getting trained on a deuce-and-a-half and a 5-ton tractor with a 43-foot flatbed. Nasty things to try and pilot through German towns and villages with their narrow, cobble stone streets!

--Larry

**clevischi** · 03-11-2008, 05:00 PM

Very interesting piece! Thank you for showing it.

**douglynn** · 03-12-2008, 08:47 AM

nice find when i first read the page 1 i thought oy oy has ian found a work ticket for a stand in driver???? mercedes you know who

but after another look i dont think he would have been out of the bunker

**Simon O.** · 03-12-2008, 02:26 PM

Just another one of those many forms used daily by soldiers of many nations for generations.

Remember well the running around trying to find someone with the authority to sign my work ticket or just opening it for the duration of a whole deployment or exercise and cabbying about without a care. I notice this one has a column for an authorising signature but none of the trips are signed. What was the score in the Wehrmacht, was this a breach of regulations? Was the driver in the smelly stuff had he been caught?

Yellow painted covers for diesel vehicles and red for petrol

**Larry deZeng** · 03-12-2008, 05:36 PM

Good questions, Simon. In normal times I think the driver would have been in the doo-doo had he consistently failed to get his trips signed off by a superior, but January - April 1945 in East and West Prussia? The situation there was hellacious as the powerful Red Army tank formations drove rapidly ahead crushing everything in their path. The road were clogged with refugee columns fleeing west and the VVS had 4,000 Sturmoviks, Pe-2s, Yaks, MiGs and Lavochkins over the area bombing and strafing everything in sight. So perhaps some of the usual paperwork requirements were suspended.

On the other hand, that was also the time of the Feldjägerkommandos and the Wehrmacht-Streifendienst that had checkpoints every mile or two, and anyone caught with papers out of order was hauled before a curbside court-martial and hanged from the nearest street lamp with a plackard around their neck.

**Ian Jewison** · 03-12-2008, 05:52 PM

I have not shown every page but entries upto journey number 11 dated 27.3.1945 were in fact authorised on 29.3.1945 by the Kraftfahroffizier, who in fact was a Hauptmann und Stabskompanie Chef also!

Journeys 12 to 14 were with the same Hauptmann and Hauptmann Fritz Breit DKiG.

15 and 16, Stgefr. Görtz was on his own.....no doubt he had a Marschbefehl or Sonderausweis of some sorts!!!!

Incidentally these are items from the possession of the Hauptmann und Stabskompanie Chef.

/Ian

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