Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Volume II

Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Volume II
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Publisher : Greenhill Books
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9781784383688
ISBN-13 : 1784383686
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Book Synopsis Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Volume II by : Hans Heinz Rehfeldt

Download or read book Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Volume II written by Hans Heinz Rehfeldt and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to his old unit, the grenade launcher, in May 1944, he experienced the heavy defensive battles in Romania as a platoon commander and from August 1944 in East Prussia and Lithuania. After being transferred by ship from Memel to Königsberg in late 1944, he took part in the battles for Ostprussen in the winter of 1944/1945. Constantly exposed to the attacks of Russian bombers and fighter planes and severely wounded by shrapnel on the leg, he manages, with the help of a Russian volunteer and a horse-drawn vehicle from Balga to Rosenberg, from there by ship transport via Pillau to ?winouj?cie and by train to Schwerin. Fleeing the impending Russian imprisonment to the west, he falls into American captivity on 3 May 1945 and is released in July 1945 in the home. Memories of a corporal and platoon commander in the grenade launcher 1943-1945


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