SB 735. GR Anzio/Nettuno

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Hi all,
I want to show you this little lot of a Soldier of the 735. Grenadier-Regiment.

Released on the 17.9.1940 by the 1./Land. Schuetz. Ers. Batl. 5.

Soldier Martin Eisebraun, born in 23.04.1908 in Winterbach. He was a ''Bahnarbeiter'' -railway worker-.
In 19.05.1941 he was transferred to the Infanterie-Regiment 735 of the 715. Infanterie-Division. In the period from 1941 till end 1943 he was stationed in south France.
In Februar 1944 the Division was transferred to Italy after the Allied landings at Nettuno / Anzio. Here had Martin his baptism of fire.
The german troops organized on the 16.02 a counterattack (Operation ''Fischfang'')
The units designed to this Operation: Elements of 4. FJ-Division, 65. Infanterie Divisions under I. Fallschirmkorps, 3. Panzer Grenadier Division, 114. Jaeger Division, 715. Infanterie Division and elements of the Hermann Goering under the command of LXXVI Panzer Corps, supported by two battalions of heavy tanks Tiger and Panther.
16.02 began Operation Fischfang. The fighting raged for three days. On February 19, the Allied troops were rejected on initial bridgehead.
On February 19, The German troops were exhausted by three days of heavy fighting and were unable to continue the offensive, other side the Allies organized the counterattack.
Martin fought in Aprilia, Cisterna, Sabotino.
He was awardad with the VWA in Schwarz and the EKII in April.
The last entry in the SB is the 11.1.1944 (a new K98). There are not listed the two awards and the Page of hospitalizations is empty.

I suppose that Martin was taken POW in end April or May 1944.

What do you think?
Why the are isn't a hospitalization for the wound? Maybe a light wound?

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Urkunden (Already posted in the Other section)

The Urkunde for the VWA in Schwarz is conferred by the Regiment and the Front, not in a Lazzarett, as I think a light wound?

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and a map!

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I have an ID for a soldier with a wound badge award without an entry in the hospitalization page. It is not common but it did occur. Also the admin got sloppy later in the war or when the situation became fluid.

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I have an ID for a soldier with a wound badge award without an entry in the hospitalization page. It is not common but it did occur. Also the admin got sloppy later in the war or when the situation became fluid.

Me too, in this soldbuch shown here
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=791254
in the awards entry , a wound badge in black but no hospital entry written in there.

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Many thanks for your answers!

Appreciated!

Pietro

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And again... A very detailed chronicle of those days.

http://www.history.army.mil/books/ww...nzio-major.htm

I can deduce that Martin was taken prisoner in mid / late May.
As can be deduced from the city marked the Journal, maybe he was taken POW in Palestrina, following of withdrawal from the beachhead at Anzio / Nettuno or near Borgo Sabotino.
We can only guess.
The 715. ID was in Palestrina in the last day of May 1944 and we can see from the map that until 23 May he was near Borgo Sabotino.

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'' At first I was close to Aprilia, then near Cisterna and then close Sabotino, bottom right. ''

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Erkennungsmarke and POW Song.


Best Regards,

Pietro

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to write an "end" to this little history....

Martin was taken POW on 15th April 1944 near Littoria.

I report some text from the Meldung of the 14th Army in Anzio/Nettuno bridgehead.

"In the night of the 15.4 the enemy conducted patrol operations. In the early morning the enemy in the 715.ID sector, after an heavy artillery fire with the support of a company of 6 tanks, managed to overwhelm the troops of the stronghold at Cerreto Alto and 2 km south of this (6 km southwest Littoria). This strongholds were taken after a counterattack.
At the same time an enemy assault 1 Km south of the aforementioned stronghold was rejected. According to a report of the corp (Ferngresprach Chef AOK 14 - Chef LXXVI. Pz. Korps) these stronghold had been supplied with close combat anti-tank weapons of all kinds, so that the success of the enemy in the first lines is mainly due to the fact of our weak artillery barrage and the heavy and natural fog."

The response from DD-Wast.