Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front : Volume II: Russia, Hungary Lithuania, and the battle for East Prussia

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 Konigsberg 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 1943-1945Author: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt,author
Contributors: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt,author
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 340
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Published/Release Date: 2 Oct 2019
Format: Hardback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Greenhill Books
Author/Director/Artist: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt
Dimension (cm): 235x159x25 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 29x240x163 mm
Item Weight (g): 1050
Package Weight (g): 914