original private studioportrait of
Oberleutnant Paul Gustav JACOB
I./Jäg.-Rgt. 204, 97.Jäg.-Div.
RK 10 March 1943, Kuban Bridgehead
Jacob to command of his Bn when the CO was wounded. He led his unit in a ferocious assault on Mount Lambina near Makartet in the Krasnodar Region.
After a fourth wound in April 1943 he was appointed CO of the II./Ski-Jäg.-Rgt. 1 in the famous Ski-Jäg.-Bde. 1
Notice the fairly rare honorary rank insignia of Heeresbergführer.
WJW
Oberleutnant Paul Gustav JACOB
I./Jäg.-Rgt. 204, 97.Jäg.-Div.
RK 10 March 1943, Kuban Bridgehead
Jacob to command of his Bn when the CO was wounded. He led his unit in a ferocious assault on Mount Lambina near Makartet in the Krasnodar Region.
After a fourth wound in April 1943 he was appointed CO of the II./Ski-Jäg.-Rgt. 1 in the famous Ski-Jäg.-Bde. 1
Notice the fairly rare honorary rank insignia of Heeresbergführer.
WJW