Need info: Knight's Cross award dates for Galland & Witt

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Need info: Knight's Cross award dates for Galland & Witt

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Post by shot from above » 05 Sep 2003, 01:23

Hello;

Regarding the Knight's Cross awards to Michael Wittmann and Adolf Galland.

I am trying to confirm the exact dates that would have been on each of their Knight's Cross documents, the "lent" date or "verleihe" date.

I also need to confirm their rank at that time.

For Galland, I have the "verleihe" date as 24.9.1940 when he was a Major.

For Wittmann I come up with the 14th, and 13th of January 1944. I assume the 14th is probably the "verleihe" date. Was he an Untersturmführer at that time?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me nail down these dates and ranks.

Cheers;
Russ

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Post by ChristopherPerrien » 05 Sep 2003, 05:16

Search for them on site or on google, both of their bio's are here.

There will be differents dates for their Iron crosses, Knights, oak leaf, swords, etc,. With these two you can surely find the exact citation for these awards if you look

There is an Oak leaf listing at http://www.feldgrau.com/hkcwo.html

there are certainly other listings. I found a great one for the Diamonds winners but sadly I have lost the URL.
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Post by Juha Hujanen » 05 Sep 2003, 19:25

Jost Schneider gives in his book Verleihung Genehmigt! KC date to Wittmann as 14.1.44 as rank of SS-Untersturmführer.

Cheers/Juha

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Post by Reader3000 » 05 Sep 2003, 19:31

You can also look at http://www.panzerace.net . This website also says that Wittmann got the Ritterkreuz on January 14, 1944. And he was SS-Untersturmführer at this time.

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