70 years ago: a Fallschirmjäger and a Roman bridge

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Nice photo of the Army Parachutist's badge in wear

thanks!
ciao Oriano

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again a Rimini sterbebild, almost a "mini-soldbuch" thanks to the Volksbund informations...... a veteran of Russia, Ortona ad Cassino awarded with Ek1 + ek2 .....

Anton Lengfelder dies (21 years) in a Feldlazarett on September 17, 1944

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and Volksbund's resolutive report that brings back the moment of his mortal wound ...

seriously injured ( (for the 3rd time in his career, the first in Russia and the second in Ortona) ) on September 15, and then transported (in the backside about 10 km from the front) to Gatteo where he died and is buried on 17 September ...

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Villa Grande leicht verwundet....

I start with his second injury in Ortona.... Ortona is the "Italian Staingrado" where Canadians fight against German paratroopers house-to-house

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The dramatic photo, taken by a Canadian reporter in Ortona, about a young German paratrooper fallen

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And the last battle of Anton in Rimini ... September 15 the Germans
paratroopers of the 1st Falls. Div. abandon the area of the church of San Lorenzo in Riccione (see behind) to go back to Rimini .... I pointed in this map where our Anton was mortally wounded teh 15th september 1944......... the most statistically probable place is around the church of San Lorenzo In Correggiano, on the little hill after Riccione and before Rimini) near the Rimini (Miramare) airport mount

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a photo and a picture (Walter Scholz dated 1946 ) of ruins of the Church of San Lorenzo in Correggiano after the passage of the front....

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and the Church of San Lorenzo in Correggiano today (the characteristic white bell tower)

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and here in San Lorenzo after the Canadians conquest, for a mistake in the changes, the paratroopers re-occupy San Martino Montelllabate, a little hill a few hundred meters further, another church on top, where the paratroopers, at the orders of Major Paul-Ernst Renisch, will stop allies for 4 days .... A postwar photo of Renisch (from "Gothic Line 1944" by Amedeo Montemaggi, on the right of Renirsch), right in front of the church of San Martino Montellabate...

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and finally, the 1 Falls Div, Memorial plate. in the German War Cemetery of Futa Pass (from the first German cemetery here in Cervia)

Nachname: Lengfelder
Vorname: Anton
Dienstrand: Obergefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 22.12.1923
Todes- / Vermisstendatum: 17.09.1944

Anton Lengfelder is in charge of the Kriegsgräberstätte in Futa-Pass.
Endgrablage: Block 25 Grab 211

[Pie]

Wonderful topic! This is the example of what passion can do! Great!

And when some pieces return ''home'' it's always a good thing!

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Wonderful topic! This is the example of what passion can do! Great!

And when some pieces return ''home'' it's always a good thing!

thank my friend!!!!!

ciao Oriano

[Willi Z.]

Once again some great work Oriano!

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Once again some great work Oriano!

many thanks Willi!

ciao Oriano

[herrzark]

impresive!!!!!!!!!!!!