Seeing as it is 70 years + since the last entry was made in this Soldbuch, and I have just found it again! I thought I would share it...pretty much unresearched as such and I am doing it now.
The Soldbuch was issued to Jäger Alfred Negebauer on 26.2.1943 as a member of Jäger Ersatz Bataillon 28 in Troppau, then 8 (M.G.) Kp./Reserve Jäger Bataillon 28 in Castres, southwest France. Part of Reserve Grenadier Regiment 215 (B), 165 Reserve Division.
1.5.1943 this unit formed 12 (M.G.) Kp./Grenadier Regiment 867 of 355 Infanterie Division, June-August 1943 fighting in the Crimea. 26.8.43 he was wounded by shell splinters and evacuated to Reserve Teil Lazarett Olmütz. After recovery he was transferred to Genesenden Kp./Grenadier Ersatz Bataillon 238 in Konstanz and recovery leave.
January 1944 to the newly formed Grenadier Regiment 1050 of 77 Infanterie Division sent to France assigned with the task of defending Caen. However Rommel was not satisfied that the Division up to this task so replaced it with 21 Panzer Division and sent 77 to a less threatened area of Saint Malo-Saint Brieuc sector in Brittany.
The 77th was placed on alert on D-day but Hgr. B delayed its move because of erroneous reports of Allied paratroop landings in Brittany. On the morning of 7.6.1944, however, Rommel ordered that it be used to reinforce Kampfgruppe Schlieben which had been assigned the task of holding the southern approaches to Cherbourg. The division started its move late (15:00) but then marched as rapidly as could be expected since it had virtually no motorised transport and was under constant harassment by Allied fighter bombers. Friedrich Dollmann Kdr. 7 Armee was very much concerned that it would not arrive in time to prevent the collapse of Generalmajor Wilhelm von Schlieben's line. But its vanguard arrived at teh front on the 10th and much of the division was in position the following day, defending in the hedgerow country on both sides of the Merderet River. Here it fought very well, checking much stronger elements of the US VII Corps and preventing the Americans from outflanking Montebourg, a major junction on the road to Cherbourg. A much relieved Dollmann signaled Rommel on the 11th that he was satisfied that the situation was well in hand in this sector.
Dollmann's relief was short lived. South of the 77th was Pz.Ers.Abt.100 which consisted of non German personnel, broke and ran at its first contact with the Americans. General Collins quickly committed the US 9th Infantry and 82nd Airborne divisions to the attack along the Pont-l'Abbé - Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte road, taking full advantage of the hold in the German line. At 05:05 on the 18th, his spearheads reached the sea near Barneville, isolating Kampfgruppe Schlieben in the northern part of the Cotentin Peninsula.
The division remained close to the coast during July and at the beginning of August most of it retreated into St. Malo, where it went into captivity when the town fell in mid-August. Probably elements of the division never went to St. Malo, since according to a OKH document dated 16 October 1944, the division was estimated to have a strength of 3 000 on 1st September. Nevertheless it was disbanded on the 15th
The Soldbuch was issued to Jäger Alfred Negebauer on 26.2.1943 as a member of Jäger Ersatz Bataillon 28 in Troppau, then 8 (M.G.) Kp./Reserve Jäger Bataillon 28 in Castres, southwest France. Part of Reserve Grenadier Regiment 215 (B), 165 Reserve Division.
1.5.1943 this unit formed 12 (M.G.) Kp./Grenadier Regiment 867 of 355 Infanterie Division, June-August 1943 fighting in the Crimea. 26.8.43 he was wounded by shell splinters and evacuated to Reserve Teil Lazarett Olmütz. After recovery he was transferred to Genesenden Kp./Grenadier Ersatz Bataillon 238 in Konstanz and recovery leave.
January 1944 to the newly formed Grenadier Regiment 1050 of 77 Infanterie Division sent to France assigned with the task of defending Caen. However Rommel was not satisfied that the Division up to this task so replaced it with 21 Panzer Division and sent 77 to a less threatened area of Saint Malo-Saint Brieuc sector in Brittany.
The 77th was placed on alert on D-day but Hgr. B delayed its move because of erroneous reports of Allied paratroop landings in Brittany. On the morning of 7.6.1944, however, Rommel ordered that it be used to reinforce Kampfgruppe Schlieben which had been assigned the task of holding the southern approaches to Cherbourg. The division started its move late (15:00) but then marched as rapidly as could be expected since it had virtually no motorised transport and was under constant harassment by Allied fighter bombers. Friedrich Dollmann Kdr. 7 Armee was very much concerned that it would not arrive in time to prevent the collapse of Generalmajor Wilhelm von Schlieben's line. But its vanguard arrived at teh front on the 10th and much of the division was in position the following day, defending in the hedgerow country on both sides of the Merderet River. Here it fought very well, checking much stronger elements of the US VII Corps and preventing the Americans from outflanking Montebourg, a major junction on the road to Cherbourg. A much relieved Dollmann signaled Rommel on the 11th that he was satisfied that the situation was well in hand in this sector.
Dollmann's relief was short lived. South of the 77th was Pz.Ers.Abt.100 which consisted of non German personnel, broke and ran at its first contact with the Americans. General Collins quickly committed the US 9th Infantry and 82nd Airborne divisions to the attack along the Pont-l'Abbé - Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte road, taking full advantage of the hold in the German line. At 05:05 on the 18th, his spearheads reached the sea near Barneville, isolating Kampfgruppe Schlieben in the northern part of the Cotentin Peninsula.
The division remained close to the coast during July and at the beginning of August most of it retreated into St. Malo, where it went into captivity when the town fell in mid-August. Probably elements of the division never went to St. Malo, since according to a OKH document dated 16 October 1944, the division was estimated to have a strength of 3 000 on 1st September. Nevertheless it was disbanded on the 15th
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