Hi all
It would be great to start a Stalingrad related thread with urkunde's issued during the battle. I'll start it off with a Black Wound badge citation to a Unteroffizier Muller of 2 Schwadron, Kradschutzen Abteilung 4. Part of the 24th Panzer Division. The award was given for fighting in and around the Red Oktober factory on 29th September 1942. He would have been a lucky man who was wounded then evacuated out of Stalingrad and the urkunde is signed by its commander Major Wolfdietrich Goder. On that day the 24th Panzer Division has high casualties as they lost two officers killed and 37 men killed and on top of this 91 men were wounded including Unteroffizier Muller. Also 8 were missing. Casualty figures are from "The Death of the Leaping Horseman" by Jason Mark which is a brilliant book on 24th Panzer Division and the fighting around the Red Oktober factory.
I hope this is a start of a great thread.
Darren
It would be great to start a Stalingrad related thread with urkunde's issued during the battle. I'll start it off with a Black Wound badge citation to a Unteroffizier Muller of 2 Schwadron, Kradschutzen Abteilung 4. Part of the 24th Panzer Division. The award was given for fighting in and around the Red Oktober factory on 29th September 1942. He would have been a lucky man who was wounded then evacuated out of Stalingrad and the urkunde is signed by its commander Major Wolfdietrich Goder. On that day the 24th Panzer Division has high casualties as they lost two officers killed and 37 men killed and on top of this 91 men were wounded including Unteroffizier Muller. Also 8 were missing. Casualty figures are from "The Death of the Leaping Horseman" by Jason Mark which is a brilliant book on 24th Panzer Division and the fighting around the Red Oktober factory.
I hope this is a start of a great thread.
Darren
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