Werphass 90 Pz.Gren.Div. KIA south of Pisa

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This soldier has falen into one of the most beautiful villages in Tuscany..

issued in Ghota (the stamp is not readable) March 25, 1937 ... NB there is not indicated his dogtag number and it can be a cause because I did not find in teh Volksbund list

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Grau Walter (right?) class 1900 , evangelical, bricklayer

"German" worker cap

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Enlisted at 40 years, in January 1940

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his units:
Two distinct periods ... until August 1943, ground personnel in airports, in Germany and France etc, so in August 1943 he moved to the panzergrenadier, and he arrived in Italy in February 1944 assigned to the 90th Gen.Gre.Div...... Then in line, for less than two months, from 21 May to 16 July 1944, in his Pz.Gren. Reg. 361

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And no presentations are needed for the 90 Pz.Gren.Div. of Baade

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... the weapons with the addition in Italy........ his military driver's licenses and always in Italy his antitank ad assault training
(Pz. Nahbekampfung Nahkampfausbildung)

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Promotions (a Brussel stamp)
the campaigns ....

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16-7-44 gefallen in Villa Saletta / Sudfront Italien ".... Villa Saletta in the town of Palaia, it is a wonderful place, an abandoned medieval farm, already owned by the Medici (the lords of Florence)

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Villa Saletta (Palaia) in two US maps

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Villa Saletta today...... abandoned for over a century is going to become a great luxury resort

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And finally a close-up of Walter and a photo of General Clark (with the state secretary James Forrestal sitting on the Jeep, and general William Liversay commander the 91 US Div. and General Gofrey Keyes) at Palaia after the capture of Palaia (2km from Villa Saletta)

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Nice one !
Interesting to see that he was first in Bodenpersonal before to be transfered to army. When he was in Lw, he was in north of France (see p. 32 : Einsatz in Nordfrankreich) : it explains the stamp of Luftgaupostamt Brussel who controled all Lw units of northern France and Belgium (between the Seine and the Rhine).

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From March - August 1943 was with Fliegerhorskompanie A 218/XII which was located at that

time (11.42 - 4.44) in Toulouse-Francazal /France.

From there he was tranferred to the army.

Gerdan