WP nco 278 ID (+ Turk) KIA in Italy

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A wehrpass af a german nco died in Italy in october 1944...

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Hans Keck, Heidenheim 1906, "Glaser Meister".......

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.. enlisted from spring 1940... the units..
and in Italy with 3./Turk.Fz.Btl 11 and the 278 Inf. Div...


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... norwegian french yugoslavian rifles and russian lg-granate (for the turkumens soldiers?)

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Unteroffizier...

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..Polen, Nordfrankreich, Balkan, Osten, Krim and in Italy from 1-5-1943....

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the diseases page




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.... and page 34: "gefallen" with the 7/G.R. 993 in Ronco, sud est of Forli (about 30 km north of Rimini)


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.. a german map of the october 1944 around Forli....

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.. today Ronco is the district south of Forli between the airport and the Ronco river...

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.. the probabily position of Hans the 26th october 1944 on the Ronco river...


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.. and finally the grave of Hans Kech in the german cemetry of Futa Pass..


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[Jochen1000]

This is a real little treasure - no big awards but I can see why you are happy with it
Personally I very much like the second-hand collection of weapons he trained with.

[walter1010de]

Wehrpass

Very, very nice Wehrpass.

Maybe it is no "crown jewel", but it is a jewel.

Very interesting history behind...

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Thanks Jochen1000... thanks Walter1010de.....