Carl's newest militaria pictures

Hi Skipper, f your talking about my Arty pic above-he is in the Gebirgeartillerie. Im not certain which Division he was in? I don't remember if this pic had any writing on the back or not? but will look again later today after I wake up from this late night and rare time on the weekend for me to be on the net ;-)) If this pic is from the same batch I saw for sale-he would either be in the 1st or 5th Geb Division.

 

Yes that the one I am talking about. I will check for the wheel if it's genreal for Artie unit or a specific one

 

Sounds good. Also, i'll post that KIA Pz Crews names and stuff later today when I have more time. I spent most of this morning lookinginto some ShtrafBat info in Pyl'cyns book as well as numbers of men belonging to certain sized Red Army units. I couldn't find the page where he not by name) is talking about the movie "Enemy At the Gates."

 

Ok, after spending about two hours using fingernails, I scrubbed off anough old album paper as well as glue from said photograph of the destroyed--obliterated Panzer and crew. Heres what i have so far. Unfortunately as some of the writing was in pencil, some of that too came off and made some stuff unreadable.

Here goes it:

Their exact location was just outside of the city/town of: B___ans just outside of Leningrad.

The crew who were in that destroyed Panzer included:
1) Feldwebel Willi Pfeifer- Tank Commander.
2) ObGefr Gunther Schmidt - Gunner.
3) ???? (name unreadable due to glue and paper) Loader.
4) ???? (name unkn due too too much glue and paper) Radioman.
5) ObGeFr Karl Konrad - Driver.

Photo taken in 1941-exact date is unkn thanks to too much glue and paper that can't be scratched off.

I don't know what this means but heres what I could make out that was written. I do understand the middle word of course-but the first and last-nope. :Thissijung Militar Schfier? or Thissijung Militarsch_ier???

Auf Eingebante Ladny? Gefune?

An Address:
B?mt (short for Beaumont?) von Strasse Weg, G_sch_enchel.

Sorry that's the best I could do without an x-ray machine.

 

Could it be "schiessen" and "schiessen Machinegewehr"? It's hard to tell without seeing the words.

Suburbs of Leningrad starting wit a "B" : Bugry Bonsoova, beloostrov, bolzhora

 

Hi Skipper, thanks for the research on Leningrads suburbs names and such-it's a start and a big help. If I can get back on here sometime Sunday? i'll see if by then I can come up with anything else. As far as it being a possibility to be schiessen machinengewehr--no possibility in it as the words aren't long enough.

It appears to have handwriting from possibly two different people on the back of the photo-but hard to tell with all those paper-splotches and glue globs all over the backside of it. Im going t try to scratch off a bit more if possible without damaging the back more than I did today ;-)) I had hoped-which it did with most of what I was able to clean off-that since the glue was old-that maybe I could chipit off tiny bits at a time. In most cases when I did so-it chipped off without taking any of the backside of the photo off.

I had a lot of trouble in the area of trying to clear the letters to the name of that Leningrad suburb. I had rubbed until the glue started coming off but a piece was stubburn and a tiny part of a layer on the photo came off-nothing I could do about it. Apparently whoever tried peeling off paper and glue-was pretty rough with this photo because some of the outer layer of photo-paper was "rolled" a but.

Anyway, weather permitting-i'll try getting back here tomorrow. Were supposed to get some nasty weather in in the next several hours and I will have to unplug my Brothers Computer-which does not hold power long and will completely shut down-and I don't know his password in restarting this thing :-(

 

Hi Carl, the names I found are probably not the only ones starting with a "B" . Besides some places may have a different name nowadays, just like St Petersburg got its old name back.

 

Hi Skipper, ill bet that your assumption is correct abut some with name changes. I forgot to mention that I have a friend who lives in St. Petersburg (formerly) Leningrad which had formerly been know as: St. Petersburg ;-))

Anyway, if I can contact Vera S/ i'll ask her to see if she can find out anything for me? ;-)) Im also going to see if she can also find Alexander Pyl'cyns address so I can ask him to sign a few autograph cards.

Oh and, I tried to get more glue and paper off today but on one spot on the back-the paper was thinner (from anothers attempted cleaning) so I stopped as I don't want a hole-even as tiny as that one would be-in the photo.

Oh and I got a few tidbit of info on a few of the men listed in the "Anschrieftensammlung der 2nd Kompanie/1st Panzer Regiment Liste" I have. I know there is at least one RKT in that Kompanie and with a few possible others one I think might even have won the Oak Leaves. I imagine a few DKIG guys are also on that list. From the list, apparently 10 were KIA at the time and these men too-were fighting somewhere on the outskirts of Leningrad in 1941. I suspect that since these pages were sold with some of those photos I got at the same time, I am having to assume that these men who were KIA in that Panzer--could also have been serving in the 1st Panzer Regiment-but not in 2nd Kompanie.

Im going to do a seperate thread on them because I believe I can get more info soon than I now have-on them (2nd KP) as well as possibly the men in that destroyed Pz Pic ;-))

Take care Skipper ;-)) --C.

 

Good idea, Carl, not only you will learn more about them , but we wil lalso be able to benefit from your finds. I assume these guys got their medals during the early days of Barbarossa and that that the 10 you mention might have kia during the winter months . Just a guess, but that would make sense.

 

Hi Skipper, thanks. Im going to get some unit info first as a background to posting these g uys names and such-to give a person an idea what they did and where they served. I found the names to the former 2nd KP Kdt-who was KIA-no date given-but sometime in mid to latter part of 1941-and before any snow fell. I also know who his replacement was.

I wish the exact date had been listed on the back of the photo but it only said 1941-and the appx location. I need to do some serious looking of info on the 1st Pz Rgmt. Im going to try gettingall of that tonight providing Shasta does not want to sleep on my lap for hours on end ;-)

Also, one of the men on that list by the name of Eckhard von Schack or Eckhard Neff e.v. Schack? was listed as having something to do with General Erich von Manstein. Possibly an aide of somekind to him?

I don't know who Leutnant Max von Zitzwitz was-but he was KIA at Leningrad.

 

Here are Carl's newest.

 

Hi Skipper, thank you again for posting more pics for me.

1) Newly minted Gebirgsjager RKT offz. I don't know who he is for the time being but should be able to find out sometime soon.

2) Several men from a Signals unit observing some event taking place somewhere on the Eastern Front in 1942-43 NOt yet totally sure of the date. Anyway, I THINK these men were from Signals Battallion 2. I have another pic of men from that unit.

3) One of my top favorites just acquired yesterday. A helmeted Russian Soldier being questioned by a German Offz while his pal in sidecap-is enjoying a smoke. I missed a great one showing a Commissar being questioned and as Maxwell Smart Agent 86 would say: "Missed it by that much."

4) German vehicles in some town during the Winter. I got this one fr two reasons-cheap price and because I like Winter scenes.

5) My favorite of the new pics-which shows a VERY muddy Kradschutzen Rider. Who could resist his smile? ;-))

 

For those interested, just got 10 more this evening and will know tomorrow morning if I got several more.

 

I love the pic of the muddy kradfahrer Carl, it's a great quality picture. The intrrrogated Ruski is also a good buy, I like can almost imagine the conversation with the interpreter.

 

Thank you Skipper, me too. Both pics together cost me mosr than i'd like to have spent-somewhere in the neighborhood of $67.00++

Wiat till you get a chance to see the next 11 I just bought. One of them I liked as it shows a Feldwebel clowing around on a childs bicycle. ;-D Of course I liked the other pics too. Oh and one of them I got I did so with YOU in mind ;-D

 

Hi Carl , this is my lunch break, but when I come back fro work I will load the new pictures (if they are already available)

 

Hi Skipper, thank you my friend. I think these might be the last six I buy for awhile.

They are.

1) Pic one of two showing Grenadiers loaded into SdKfzs.
2) Pic two from the above.
3) Pic Showing three newly "minted" soldiers with their EKIIs. I think these guys are in a Pioneering Battalion.
4) Heavy Artillery piece shown firing a shot either at Dawn or at Dusk.
5) Another soldier newly minted with his EKII.
6) Six NCOs newly awarded their Infantry Assault Badges in Silver-and the FW has his EKI also shown.

 

Here they are!

 

Wow those are some incredible photos, thanks for letting us view them