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    WP Oberleutnant Sturm.Gesh.Abt.242 Kia in Cassino

    I repaeat...

    One of the last acquisition who has not lined up and passed others because the Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 242 is one of my favorites units.

    I put the famous photos of the "last of the Mohicans" the Stug of the Hotel Continetal of Cassino, while probably the tank of our unfortunate officer, who will fall on the front of Cassina, was one of the first stugs of the 242 to be hit on the Gustav line....
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    The small lot consists of the wehrpass and some photos. Released in Altona (Hamburg) on ​​20 February 1937 to Gunther Kohbruk, classf 1920, student, son of the Professor Hugo Kohbruk
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      #3
      Gunther "Freiwilliger" he enlisted in the Artillerie Regiment 20 in November 1937
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        His Units, with in the middle his officer training school, the Artillerie Regiment 20 until November 1940, then from July 1941 to April 1943 in the Artillerie-Lehr-Regiment 2 at Jüterbog , in the III Abteilung (für leichte und schwere Sf . Haubitze ausgerüstet). And from April 1943 with the Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 242
        in Sardinia, Corsica and finally on the Gustav line
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          probably the first photo in uniform to be sent home... 1938
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            The synthesis of its long military training ... interesting the 7.5 KVK Sfl anti tank gun, and the drivers licence for tracked vehicles with a weight of over 10 tons (Sturmgeschütz III)
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              His career: ROB in May 39, in April 1940 Leunant, oberleutnant in 1942.
              The assignments in the middle of the military grades: Fuhrer der Batterie in May 1941, Aiutant in July 1942, "zum Batterie Chef ernnant" in April 1943 (we have seen here the date error!)

              The medals of the Sudetes in September 1939

              http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...highlight=benz
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                And the "special" page 23 with the signature of his commander, the Hauptmann Ernst Benz which will fall in Roccasecca, headquarters of the Sturm.Gesch.Abt. 242 in the back of Cassinio, under the great carpet bombing of March 15, 1944 (over 700 bombers that dropped about 1200 tons of bombs in the cassino area)

                Roccasecca in two USAF report in Jannuary and March 1944....
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                  The campaign page. The Leutnant Gunther (Always with the Artillierie Regiment 20) after the campaign of Poland participates in the campaign of France and he was wounded (due to the explosion of an artillery project : thanks Gerdan!) right in the final phase of the battle of Dunkirk on 2 June. The annotation of his black wounded badge and his EK2 in France
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                    the nice annotation of his 3-month study license



                    two bureaucratic notes
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                      The syntetic notes of the campaigns od the 242 until Jannuary 1944: Sardinia and Corsica. This should be a photo of 242 taken just in the summer 1943....
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                        and the epilogue: the Oberleutnant Gunther Kohbruk, commander of the 2nd Company, falls on January 8, 1944 in front of Cassino and is buried in Roccasecca where he was in fact the command of his Abteilung. The transmission sheet of his Wehrpass to the family
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                          I tried to find the exact place where lieutenant Kohbrok fell because in the Volksbund there is indicated an inexistent Monte Miccole (probably the wrong handwriting of the place), but not all, everything suggests that Gunther was mortally wounded on January 7th then transported to the rear near his HQ where he died. Note the "dienstgrad" Hauptmann in the Volksbund, probably a postmortem promotion.
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                            The first help to reconstruct the action where Gunther KIA comes to me from my friends fans of german tanks, who sent me, from a "Der Sturmartilelrie" of 1979, some memories and information:


                            When the unit was alerted on the evening of 3.1.1944, it was stationed alongside the bay of Gaeta guarding the coast in the sector of the 94. Inf.Div .. That same evening it started its road march to Cassino and then towards the road to Naples. Some 4 km outside Cassino the 2nd battery took up positions to the left in the small mountain hamlet called San Antonio. The weather was very poor, at first snow, then rain. After a few hours the battery will be in the next fork Naples - Venafro. There is an American artillery barrage, but all assault guns made through the fire. Calmed down for a while. KIA, its CO Oberleutnant Kohbruck, who received a shell splinter to his head. Oberleutnant Metzger the battery returned to Cassino.


                            With this information and traces and their archives and knowledge of every place and battle the Gustav Line, the friends of the site from the "Volturno a Cassino"
                            they have solved every doubt ( they also sent me a feedback in the diaries of the US Tank Battl. 753)

                            Here's the point ... .. the context is the final phase of overtaking the Winter Line .... We are in front of the "valley" between Monte Porchia and Colle Cedro. I marked with the red triangle the point where the Stugs of the 2nd Company were hit and where the oberleutnat Kohbruk was mortally wounded in the head ....
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                              Here is the scenario in an aerial photo with Monte Porchia in the foreground (and the Abbey of Cassino white on the massif at the bottom) ... and American photos of Monte Porchia of those days ....
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