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Here i have a nice document i recently found. It belongs to unteroffizier Karl Lohmann, Stab I/ Grenadier Regiment 736 (716 Infanterie Divison). It was primarily the 716th Infantry Division, commanded by Generalleutnant Richter, which faced the Allied landings on Sword, Juno and Gold on 6th June 1944. The 716th Infantry Division, in summer 1942, was stationed in Normandy on the coastal sector extending from the Vire in the west to the Dives in the East.
This Division was commanded by Generalleutnant Wilhem Richter at his Headquarters in Caen as shown in the above diagram.
As can be seen on the organisation chart above, 716 ID was part of LXXXIV Corps, commanded by General der Artillerie Erich Marcks, and then the 7th Army, commanded by Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann. The 716 ID positioned its two infantry regiments on its coastal sector, Grenadier-Regiment 736 in the East (from the Dives to Courseulles) and Grenadier-Regiment 726 in the West (from Courseulles to Grandcamp). The HQ of Grenadier-Regiment 736 was in Colleville (named Hillman by the Allies).
The three Battalions of GR 736 were stationed to the West of the Orne. Ost-Batallion 642 comprised Russian soldiers from the Eastern Front enlisted into the Wehrmacht. The Ost-Batallion was reassigned to 716 ID in 1944. It therefore became the IV Battalion of GR 736 and its HQ was at Amfréville. Finally, the 716th ID contained Artillery Regiment 1716. The 1./AR 1716 was located east of the Orne and was the Merville Battery. The Forward Observation Post of the Merville Batterie was manned by a Section of 3./GR 736.
Wiederstand Neste 17 (Sword Beach), codename "Hillman" is a complex of bunkers near the little town of Colleville-Montgomery. A few kilometres before entering Ouistreham, along side a country road between Biéville-Beuville and Colleville. It is a different bunker thenColleville than the one near Normandy American National Cemetery and Memorial is located. it was built in 1942, this German occupying forces strongpoint (WN17) is a concrete set of 600 meters long where the headquarters of the 736th Regiment Grenadiers was established. It consists of 18 half buried blockaus connected by underground passageways.
It was on top of a flat hill and that's why it was very difficult to approach. The Suffolk Regiment, with the help of a platoon of the 13th/18th Hussars, finally took the complex after a bloody fight, man to man .
During the fighting after D-Day, the Division fought defensively around Caen and Villers-Bocage. According to the commanding officer, Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter, "My division had been defeated and badly beaten up in Normandy". The Division was removed from frontline duty on July 10, 1944 and luckily avoided the carnage of the Falaise Pocket.
Redeployed to the south of France, the Division took up coastal security positions in the region of Salses-Perpignan-Elne, close to the Spanish border. Thereafter, the Division was ordered to withdraw on August 19, 1944 and retreated through Languedoc to the region around Lyon. After this movement the Division was engaged by the French resistance before later arriving in the area of Sélestat in Alsace.
Karl Lohmann was got wounded during the Normandy Battle. Anyone who has an idea which Major signed the document.
Regards
Erwin
Here i have a nice document i recently found. It belongs to unteroffizier Karl Lohmann, Stab I/ Grenadier Regiment 736 (716 Infanterie Divison). It was primarily the 716th Infantry Division, commanded by Generalleutnant Richter, which faced the Allied landings on Sword, Juno and Gold on 6th June 1944. The 716th Infantry Division, in summer 1942, was stationed in Normandy on the coastal sector extending from the Vire in the west to the Dives in the East.
This Division was commanded by Generalleutnant Wilhem Richter at his Headquarters in Caen as shown in the above diagram.
As can be seen on the organisation chart above, 716 ID was part of LXXXIV Corps, commanded by General der Artillerie Erich Marcks, and then the 7th Army, commanded by Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann. The 716 ID positioned its two infantry regiments on its coastal sector, Grenadier-Regiment 736 in the East (from the Dives to Courseulles) and Grenadier-Regiment 726 in the West (from Courseulles to Grandcamp). The HQ of Grenadier-Regiment 736 was in Colleville (named Hillman by the Allies).
The three Battalions of GR 736 were stationed to the West of the Orne. Ost-Batallion 642 comprised Russian soldiers from the Eastern Front enlisted into the Wehrmacht. The Ost-Batallion was reassigned to 716 ID in 1944. It therefore became the IV Battalion of GR 736 and its HQ was at Amfréville. Finally, the 716th ID contained Artillery Regiment 1716. The 1./AR 1716 was located east of the Orne and was the Merville Battery. The Forward Observation Post of the Merville Batterie was manned by a Section of 3./GR 736.
Wiederstand Neste 17 (Sword Beach), codename "Hillman" is a complex of bunkers near the little town of Colleville-Montgomery. A few kilometres before entering Ouistreham, along side a country road between Biéville-Beuville and Colleville. It is a different bunker thenColleville than the one near Normandy American National Cemetery and Memorial is located. it was built in 1942, this German occupying forces strongpoint (WN17) is a concrete set of 600 meters long where the headquarters of the 736th Regiment Grenadiers was established. It consists of 18 half buried blockaus connected by underground passageways.
It was on top of a flat hill and that's why it was very difficult to approach. The Suffolk Regiment, with the help of a platoon of the 13th/18th Hussars, finally took the complex after a bloody fight, man to man .
During the fighting after D-Day, the Division fought defensively around Caen and Villers-Bocage. According to the commanding officer, Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter, "My division had been defeated and badly beaten up in Normandy". The Division was removed from frontline duty on July 10, 1944 and luckily avoided the carnage of the Falaise Pocket.
Redeployed to the south of France, the Division took up coastal security positions in the region of Salses-Perpignan-Elne, close to the Spanish border. Thereafter, the Division was ordered to withdraw on August 19, 1944 and retreated through Languedoc to the region around Lyon. After this movement the Division was engaged by the French resistance before later arriving in the area of Sélestat in Alsace.
Karl Lohmann was got wounded during the Normandy Battle. Anyone who has an idea which Major signed the document.
Regards
Erwin
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