This SS assault gunner went missing in action on 13 March 44 around the village of Lilienbach. This village was located I believe on the northern part of the Narva Bridgehead. This was the scene of some really hard combat. Tieke's book Tragedy of the Faithful on page 469 shows a StuG on the Narva Bridgehead (dated 11 March44) of SS PzJag Abt 54 located at "Schotfeld
Lilienbach".
Wow... I am absolutely blown away by some of the Panzer/AFV crew member Soldbücher and Wehrpässe posted here! You just have to love those black and field gray wrapper photos I'm in the process of taking some pics and will post a few of mine over the next few days. Sorry for the delay, but work and the Easter holiday had me extremely busy running around with no free time...
Indeed, fantastic material presented here Lads !!!
It would be nice to see more of AJ's ID posted in # 132...
*** The "SS Pz. Gren. Ausb. u. Ers. Batl. 3" stationed in Warschau was in the thick of the first
(1943) "Warsaw Uprising". It would be interesting to see the remainder of this book to piece together the time period in which he served with that Unit.
As you can see, some of the entries are barely legible!!!
In the right light you can make out EK II but no idea what the other award is.
I presume the wound badge as he was wounded in Russia then concvalesced and retrained with SS PZ.Ausb.u.Ers.Rgt., of which SS Ostubaf. Friedrich Holzer was the Commander!
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