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[Daarom]

[Daarom]

Heimat Flak Batterie 230 / Luftgau VIII Breslau
230th Territorial Anti-Aircraft Battery / Aviation District VIII Breslau

One of the many anti-aircraft batteries, created sometime during 1943 within Air Region VIII (Luftgau VIII, Breslau). From September 1944, the battery was part of Flak Regiment 107, which provided anti-aircraft defense in Silesia (so-called Flakgruppe Oberschlesien-Ost). The battery was to be equipped with 4 Russian 7.62 cm anti-aircraft guns and was to occupy a position in the vicinity of the towns of Stillersfeld (today Stolarzowice, Poland) and Klausberg (today Mikulczyce, Poland).

The operators of these batteries were mostly boys aged 15-17 years (years 1926-28) as so-called air helpers (LwH – Luftwaffenhelfer or popularly known as Flakhelfer). Some batteries were also manned by girls who could volunteer for service in the Air Force after reaching the age of seventeen.

FLaKw. = Flakwaffenhelfer

[meskalin]

Great ID!