Zwischen Metz und Moskau - Als Soldat der 95. Infanteriedivision in Frankreich und als Fernaufklärer

mit der 4.(F)14 in Russland. Book

When Karl Knoblauch, only seventeen years old, began his military service on 18 November 1938 as a volunteer at the Army Sergeant School Frankenstein in Silesia, he does not yet suspect what unusual military career awaits him. Used as a sergeant in the 1951 Radfahrschwadron of the 95th Infantry Division, he experienced the securing of the western wall in 1939/1940 and participated in the campaign in France. Returning from the Western campaign, he reports to the flying staff of the Luftwaffe and is trained to be an observer. With the 4th (F) / 14 Fernaufklärerstaffel used in the middle section of the Eastern Front he experienced as a reconnaissance plane, destroyers and bombers from the heavy and lossy missions with his Ju-88 at the foci of the battles of Smolensk, before Moscow and Rzhev and the large retreat movements 1943. After 165 missions with the Iron Cross I class and the German Cross in gold, he is badly wounded in a Russian fighter attack and has to leave his squadron. After his recovery, now promoted to lieutenant, his further path leads him to the parachute corps Hermann Göring. In the second volume The end contrary to this autobiography of Karl Knoblauch, which is based on his war diaries, the fate of the lieutenant is described during the defensive fighting for East Prussia and the final battle for the Reich.

Hardcover: 420 pages

Language: German

Size: 17.4 x 3.2 x 24.6 cm