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Paratrooper / Africa Wehrpass & Extras
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by: hucks216
Description: Very nice little set to a long serving soldier who fought in Africa as a paratrooper. Originally joined the infantry in 1936, he served with various infantry regiments from 1936 to 1941 earning the Wound Badge in Black for injuries received on 14th June 1940. He then transferred over to the Luftwaffe and joined the paratroopers. After the relevant training he was awarded the Fallschirmschützenabzeichen and eventually joined 2./FJR-5 in February 1942 which was earmarked for the invasion of Malta before shipping over to North Africa.
I could go in to the history of the unit while he served with it but this link does that much better than I could...
Hobby
He died on 5th December 1942, having been badly injured on 30th November in Tunisia. According to the link above, on the day he was injured a patrol from FJR-5 encountered British paratroopers who had been dropped to capture an airfield during the fighting around Tebourba.
Also included with the Wehrpass is a photo showing the man in full Fallschirmjäger equipment, a Death Card showing his Para Badge, a postcard showing a paratrooper leaping from an aircraft and addressed to a Josephine Kuchler (not shown here), and some sort of A4 Heldentod piece of paper which has a nice photo of him wearing all his awards/ribbons. This last item has a few rips including one hard to see in the image but circled in yellow.
*The red lines are obviously not on the actual items, it is just a crude form of watermark.
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05-05-2018 06:50 PM
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