SMGM-3556 Hans Briegel (x2) Knights cross winner signatures
$100.00
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Description
Picture permanently attached to a 4.5×6″ card with postwar blue ball point signatures on the front AND the back. Currently a difficult signature to find in the market and you get TWO.
From traces of war:
- Date of birth:
- November 5th, 1906 (Buttenwiesen/Bavaria, Germany)
- Date of death:
- June 23rd, 1988 (Ebenhausen/Bavaria, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, Third Reich)
Biography
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- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Major
- Unit:
- Führer, Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2 “Hermann Göring, Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 1 “Hermann Göring”, Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- January 14th, 1945
Awarded for distinguishing himself during the fighting around Warsaw (specifically the efforts to eliminate a Russian bridgehead between a railroad and road embankment) and later in the major forest battles for the Warka bridgehead. The local success he achieved here contributed significantly to preventing the expansion of the Soviet bridgehead at the mouth of the Pilica river (between Warka and Magnuszew) and a consequent operational breakthrough towards Radom.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 14th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- March 18th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- March 17th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- December 25th, 1942
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