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SOLDBUCH & WEHRPASS - Panzer
Regiment 8 - TOBRUK + NORMANDY!
NICE!
Wehrpass & Soldbuch
to Feldwebel in
Panzer Regiment 8.
Awarded the General
Assault Badge,
Afrika Campaign medal,
EK2, KVK2. Long list
campaign entries
including France
Campaign and AFRIKA -
Good entries of TOBRUK!
Soldbuch entry for
pay given for clothing
allowance "In Afrika -
16.3.1942." Also entry
that he arrived in
Afrika on May 5, 1941.
No photo; never had one.
SB issued Jan 1942.
He escaped the
destruction of the DAK
in Africa. Then served
in Res. Panzer Abt 7 and
Gen. Kdo. LVIII Panzer
Korps starting in June
1944. he was with the
unit during "Operation
Margarete" (occupation
of Hungary). Then
he saw action in FRANCE
, NORMANDY and the
ARDENNES and all
battles in West until
the capitulation!!
On April 8, 1944* it
transferred to Toulouse,
France, and on April 15
was converted to an
active panzer corps. The
Corps moved to the Le
Mans area on July 20,
1944, and took part in
defensive operations
against U.S. forces in
the Alencon and Argentan
areas southwest of
Paris. Between August
and September it
gradually withdrew to
the Barr area southwest
of Strasbourg and
participated in
counterattacks in the
Luneville and Mousson
areas. During November
1944 the Corps
transferred to the
Munstereifel and
Kyllburg areas to
prepare for the Ardennes
offensive, and on
December 12 it advanced
west from Waxweiler
through Luxembourg to
the Laroche area on the
Ourthe River northwest
of Bastogne. During the
Ardennes offensive the
LVIII. Fanzerkorps was
given the code name of
Gruppe Decker
$950