The Battle of Kursk.
The Battle of Kursk.
Hi there.
I found a Casualty card for August.
Name: August Ried
Birth date: 7 August 1920
Birth Place: Lechbrück Allg
Military Rank: Rottenführer
Military Unit: 9./Batterie SS-Panzer Artillerie Regiment 'Das Reich'
Death date: 16 July 1943
Death Place: 1 1/2 km nordostw Iwanowka
August Ried has probably been transferred as an unknown soldier to the military cemetery Kursk - Besedino .
Gefallen : Bombe Volltreffer
Killed in action : Bomb direct hit.
Sturmbootkommando 902 - Georg Leitner
Name: Georg Leitner
Birth date: 28 February 1910
Birth Place: München
Military Rank: Gefreiter
Military Unit: Sturmbootkommando 902
Death date: 29 December 1941
Death Place: Feodosia
Georg Leitner is buried in the military cemetery in Sewastopol - Gontscharnoje.
Endgrablage: Block 6 Reihe 18 Grab 1245
Gefallen: Infanterie Geschuß Herz
Killed in action: Infantry shot heart
The German army captured Feodosia in November 1941. From 26 to 30 December 1941, the Red Army launched a massive counteroffensive and recaptured the city. This offensive went into history books as the largest amphibious assault of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The Germans retook Feodosiya on 18 January 1942, 19 days later.
Memorial Russian Landing Forces Feodosiya - Feodosiya - TracesOfWar.com
Leichtes Sturmboot-Kommando 902 -
leichtes Sturmboot
Leichtes Sturmboot-Kommando 902 - Axis History Forum
The Leichtes Sturmboot 39 -
The Leichtes Sturmboot 39 was a small, high-powered assault craft used for river and small waterway crossings and assaults. They were also employed on security and anti-partisan patrols along river ways in occupied territories. It consisted of a frame-reinforced wooden hull about 6m long, 1.5m wide and weighed 170kg. The drive consisted of a 30 hp 4-stroke outboard motor with a 18 litre tank, which lasted about 1 1/2 hours.
Leichtes Sturmboot 39 - Feldgrau
Fotos des Sturmbootkommando 902
https://www.barrageminiatures.com/bo...-156-28mm.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sturmboot
Feodosia
Feodosia - Wikipedia
The fierce battle for Kerch and Feodosia
Just a moment...
44th Army (Soviet Union)
44th Army (Soviet Union) - Wikipedia
Massacre of Feodosia -
The Massacre of Feodosia refers to the killing of 150–160 wounded members of the Wehrmacht by soldiers of the Red Army, between 29 December 1941 and 1 January 1942 in the harbour city of Feodosia on the Crimean peninsula.
Massacre of Feodosia - Wikipedia
About: Massacre of Feodosia
Misc information -
Soviet Disaster in the Crimea
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/20...in-the-crimea/
MANSTEIN’S ROMANIANS IN THE CRIMEA
https://www.feldgrau.com/ww2-romanians-in-crimea/
Crimean campaign 1941-1942 in a district Feodosiya-Kerch.I
https://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20856
Comprehensive assimilation once again Ninja Willmore.
8./(Maschinengewehr) Kompanie Grenadier Regiment 423 - Gustav Landeck (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient)
Surname:
Landeck
Forename:
Gustav
Service rank:
Leutnant der Reserve
Date of birth:
02.03.1913
Place of birth:
Schweinfurt, Unterfranken
Death/missing date:
29.07.1944
Death/missing place:
Lazarettezug (hospital train) 1123 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Gustav Landeck is buried in the military cemetery in Bartossen / Bartosze.
Endgrablage: Block 2 Reihe 4 Grab 183
Kompanieführer Gustav Landeck was posthumously promoted to Oberleutnant der Reserve and awarded the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross) on the 21st of September 1944.
Landeck, Gustav - TracesOfWar.com
Knight's Cross Holders of 212. Infanterie-Division
8./Kompanie (Kaukasier) Bergmann - Franz Novi
Full name: Franz Novi
Birth date: 13 March 1922
Birth Place: Tarsdorf In/Oberdonau
Military Rank: Gefreiter
Military Unit: 8./Kompanie (Kaukasier) Bergmann
Death date: 15 November 1943
Death Place: Nordostw Tarchan Höhe 17,6 Perekop/Krim
Franz Novi has probably been transferred as an unknown soldier to the military cemetery Sewastopol - Gontscharnoje.
Gefallen : Artillerie Geschoß Kopf
Killed in action: Artillery projectile head
The Sonderverband Bergmann was formed by the Abwehr in the fall of 1941 to be used as a security force in the Caucasus. It was withdrawn from the Crimea in February 1943. In late 1943 two battalions of the unit went to Greece and one to Poland.
Order of battle
I. Battalion (Georgian)
II. Battalion (Azerbaijani)
III. Battalion (Kaukasier)
Sonderverband Bergmann
Bergmann (literally "mountain man" i.e. "highlander") was the code-name for the deployment in the Caucasus of special units of volunteers operating under the authority of the German Abwehr's "II" (sabotage) section. The Sonderverband ("special unit") "Bergmann" was initially made up of around 550 largely untrained men from both the North and South Caucasus (émigrés and prisoners-of-war from the region) serving around a core of roughly 200 German soldiers with different specialist skills, but would later grow to a peak of around 3,000. The Sonderverband was created in November 1941 in the "Stranz" Lager of the training camp in Neuhammer-am-Queis in Silesia now Świętoszów in Poland, 120km N.E.E of Dresden. A small core of German instructors had been assembled here, many of them Russian-speakers belonging to the Lehr-Regiment Brandenburg zbV 800, who were to teach infantry combat and tactics to the Caucasian troops.
batsav | caucasian peoples on the german side during the second world war
Misc information -
Nordkaukasische Legion ! - Page 4 - Axis History Forum
The Organization of the Eastern Troops, 5 May 1943 | Weapons and Warfare
German Mountain Troops, 1939–42 - Yves Beraud - Google Books
Hitler's Eastern Legions 1942–45 - Nigel Thomas - Google Books
https://www.forum.axishistory.com/vi...c.php?t=142382
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1499125
For young collectors setting out, collecting death cards are a fascinating and fairly inexpensive opportunity to learn something of the fallen, their unit and the combat that took their lives. Again Willmore another example of finding something a little more interesting as a result of some easy research.
Thanks BlackCat and so very true. I find the research so rewarding, especially when I find something unusual.
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