Fallschirmjäger RKTs - pics and career data

[Fallschirmjäger]

Peter i may have missed it,but did any pictures here have a FJ with say the narvik shield and crete and africa armbands and the usual FJ medals and badges?.If not do you know where some are at all?,thanks.

[Peter H]

No,but I find that combination near impossible to achieve.

At Narvik only served I/FJR1.

II/FJR2 did arrive in Norway later but did not see action as the Narvik battle was over.Hence no Narvik shield for this battalion.

Therefore you would need a member of I/FJR1 to serve at Narvik,Crete and Afrika.Narvik and Crete would have been achievable.However I/FJR1 never served in Afrika.

Now it is possible that a handful of officers and NCOs via transfers (formerly from I/FJR1) did serve in Afrika with other units but again there numbers would be few,say a dozen or so men.

[Peter H]

Johannes-Matthias Hönscheid

http://www.ritterkreuztraeger-1939-45.d ... tthias.htm



As indicated he was" the only war correspondent with the Knight's Cross".It states his KC was for his prior act of bravery with FJR4 in Sicily in July 1943.Transferred to the Heer 1944 as a war correspondent.

[Fallschirmjäger]

Thanks for that info Peter,i did not think of that or check that info out on asking that.

[Peter H]

I think everything now tires up with what is here,courtesy of Bernd:

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=1703

[Fallschirmjäger]

So its all realy done Peter,well now i need to find some time to go back over them all and save info and pictures,thanks for this.

[Dieter Zinke]

Rolf Mager

Dieter Z.

[Fallschirmjäger]

So not all done then i see,like was there no picture for Rolf Mager,or its just another one?.

[Peter H]

Its another photo of Mager.

Here's another one of Dr Neumann.

From: http://presentations.uib.no/pls/portal/ ... _PART.show

[Peter H]

Here's some DKiG holders as well.

From Jean-Yves Nasse

Dieter Brehde,FJR 6 26/11/43

[Peter H]

Ernst Mössinger,FJR3.DKiG-22/4/44.

Awarded Narvik Shield,EK1,EK2 for Dombass,Norway 1940.

From Eric Queen's Red Shines the Sun...

[Peter H]

From Eric Queen's book.

Alfred Ludwig,DKiG

[Peter H]

Egon Danzer,FJR3.

From wehrmacht-awards.vom,poster Willi Zahn

[Peter H]

From Eric Queen's book.

Willy Rohrbach(DKiG 1944) shakes Student's hand 1939.

[Peter H]

From Eric Queen's book

Willi(Wilhelm) Peters.

I don't know if he's sporting the DKiG or the Silver DG.

Note Kreta and Afrika armbands--served with Lehr Battalion in Afrika.