9. / Fallschirm.Jg.Rgt. 3

[Pepe77]

Simply incredible, thanks for great reading!

[kurt1922]

to be true- your unckle ID tag in my hands and i will give it to you if you want ( i'm sure You Do )
I kept it as rememberance but it very important to you so you will have it ....

Wow, that would be wonderful. It's a small but important thing to remember my great uncle.

[MG-Freak]

Hooray for Sturm!!

[Sergey K.]

thanks MG-Freak .
Here is a picture of field on the hill where some trenches dug up . And the second one made to the hill itself from the back reserve line which German paratroopers took after they lost the hill .

[Sergey K.]

Then we had some next days of not successful digging , found only emty holes full of MG empty chains and boxes with ammo . Also crazy numbers of shooted cartriges - many of them damaged by splinters . definately crazy buttle was there ...it looks something like this .

[Sergey K.]

germans wrote in their diaries about crazy artillery fire during the week of the battle /// many items found where with damages .

[Hanz-Franz]

hello,with what are the shells stamped?


gruß Hanz-Franz

[Sergey K.]

I decided check the first line of german trenches ...they already been dug up but not professional so i found a strong signal from deep about 5 m from the main trench to the russian lines ( as I understood later it was MG point connected to the trench itself ) Firstly i dug up some russian ammunition and grenades but it was only the items which our soldiers lost when took the german line ...then i checked a deeper and found remains of some man , my first thoughts - it's russian , but then i clean him i saw i made a mistake ...only german equipment on the floor of the hole and FJ boots confirmed this ...

[Sergey K.]

Then continue dig in the hard soil full of stones and emty cartriges trying to find every small item .

[fallschirm]

the buckle and the leather belt are in a incredible condition.The russian earth are very good.
when you discover some bones, what are you doing?

[Sergey K.]

Boots with feet cuted by the splinter and the finally main thing - ID tag !

[marcinkappa]

Simply amazing ! Great job !

[GTA1000]

Sturm...i have to apologize...i´m sorry.

[floriskok]

To Kurt 1922 - to be true- your unckle ID tag in my hands and i will give it to you if you want ( i'm sure You Do )
I kept it as rememberance but it very important to you so you will have it ....

Sturm, first of all, my compliments on this fine work of archeology, thanks
to people like you mysteries and questions can still be answered after such
a big period of time.

Giving the dogtag back to Kurt is a very nice gesture which I think some other
collectors would not even think of doing! You are a true gentleman!

[kurt1922]

Thank you for the new pictures Sergey, there were nice.
Are the pictures of the grave from my great uncle?

How would we do it, that the ID tag comes to me?