Some Wehrpasses of the 71 ID

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the ID 71 is one of my favorite German Divisions,
From Cassino to Rimini Always in the forefront.
In Rimini it will be virtually destroyed for the second timee (after Stalingrad) in the breaching of the Gothic in late August 1944 where, with only two other divisions (the 278 ID and the 1 FJD) hold up the brunt of three Allied Army Corps Army , and will remain only his artillery that fight with 100 GJR from Gemmano to San Marino

I have some Wehrpasses of this division, especially artillery

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and I start with a Panzerjager ....

released in August 1942 in Solingen .... his Panzerjager dog tag

Gunther Muller, , born in 1925, in Cologne ....

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Pre military

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He Leaves in August 1943 ... destination Panzerjager the Infantry School in Osnabruck ....

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two photos of the barracks in Osnabruck where he remains ten months ..

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and after Osnabrück, destination in Italy, the 71 Infantry Division, to its 211 Grenadier Regiment, the Company 14, that in a German Infantry Regiment was the anti-tank Company equipped in Italy with the Pak 7.5 ...

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obviously his training with anti tank gun....

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And for some photos of 7.5 cm PaK 40 in Italy, the Sherman terror (the latest is of september 1944 around Rimini)

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gefreiter, the visits....

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the nice page of the Italian campaigns of the 71 ID, from Cassino to Rimini....

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the green cloverleaf on a car of the 71ID destroyed by Gurkhas in Tavoleto (Rimini Sud) ...

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and from two photos from " Die 71. Infanterie-Division 1939-1945 by Wigand Wüster
of General Rapcke with his officers in Italy (the second are of the 211 Gren. Reg.)

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Hungary campaign

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but we come to the Gotich Line "south"...

a black wounded badge dated October 6, 1944 for a wound of 22 July 1944 ....

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and thanks to his "Nahktage" we have the exact place where he was shot Corinaldo