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01-17-2021 01:15 AM
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Disregard the photo with 75bann boards added by mistake
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Based on his age and the low rank, I'd say that he was a late war addition to the Fallschirmjäger, maybe transferred across from a Luftwaffe signals unit but that is just an assumption. At the time he served with FJR-1 they were fighting in Italy:
Lexikon der Wehrmacht - Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment
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Thank you so much. Now I just gotta find out where he was wounded so I can piece it all together and make a nice write up for him. It is a very cool lot! Thanks again!
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Now how would I be able to find out when he joined? That way maybe i can narrow it down to what battles he might have been part of? Thank you
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If you have his date and place of birth you could ask the Bundesarchiv for his service history. They may, or may not as you're not Next of Kin, send you a copy.
Bundesarchiv Internet - Personal Documents of Military Provenance until 1945
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Ok thank you so much ima try and see what happens. I sure would love to find out! Thank you again!
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Nice group of items. As his discharge papers cites him as having previously been in a Berlin PW enclosure if he was in Italy when his was wounded with FJ Regiment 1 then perhaps he ended up in a Berlin Hospital when he was taken prisoner.
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Yeah I thought that but wasn't sure if that is how it worked and why he went to that hospital. I'd like to find out where he was wounded like what battle he was part of but I'd have to look into the archives. Just a very interesting lot
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Notice that the award for the Verwundabzeichen in Schwarz refers to the Reservelazarett Lemförde, which is near Osnabrucke? So perhaps he was wounded in Italy and was transported back?
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