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Post by Waffen211 » 09 Jun 2011, 11:24

Dear friends, I'm working on the story of the Hitler Youth Day and I can not find news about the death of SS-Ostuf. Helmut Bando, Kdr 5./SS-Pz.Rgt. 12, on 27 June 1944. Does anyone have news took place in what circumstances? Does anyone have any pictures of notice? Thanks

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Post by Ste » 09 Jun 2011, 14:11

As far as I remember, he was hit in the back of the head by machine gun fire.
He was at the front with SS-Ustuf. Kandler, telling him to attack a farm with a machine gun nest; while he was moving away, he was hit by that MG.
Buried in the garden of the castel of Coultru with other members of the company.


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Post by Waffen211 » 10 Jun 2011, 10:41

Thanks to all, but only thanks to Ste, i found the info in the book of H.Meyer (English Version) Volume I, at page 401. Someone can help me with one photo of Bando?

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This report is by Untersturmführer Willi Kändler on the third attack of the day on Hill 112, in which 5. Kompanie took part:

"At around 17.00 hours, our total number, through newly arrived Panzers, was back to nine. The 6. Kompanie under Untersturmführer Helmut Buchwald with Zugführer (platoon leader) Kurt Mühlhaus was also there. This time we tried to attack the hill by swinging wide to the left around the small wood in front of the square wooded area. Despite being covered from view to the right toward the square wood, we again came under heavy fire from tanks, had a few Panzer losses and had to withdraw again to our starting positions.
As one of the details of this attack, the exemplary behavoir of the gunner, Sturmmann Schmid, who lost a leg in this attack, has stuck in my memory. Despite his serious wound, he turned the gun to twelve o'clock so that the driver and radio operator were able to bail out of their otherwise blocked hatches.
In the late evening hours, our Regimental commander Wünsche drove up to our hedge and praised our action. He told us that 36 enemy tanks had been counted on the hill.
After we had pulled our Panzers into the hedges, I agreed with Untersturmführer Porsch that I would establish contact on foot with our neighbor to the right, 6. Kompanie, located close by, also in hedges. On the way there, I encountered a Schwimmvolkswagen (amphibian VW) of the reconnaisance Zug of the Abteilung. The two men in it reported having come down from the hill. They had seen a Panzer IV with its engine running and a dead soldier sitting in front of it. This could only be the Panzer of Helmut Kunze. After reporting to Porsch, I drove immediately with the two in the Volkswagen in the dark up the hill to the Panzer. It really was Kunze's. In front of the Panzer, the loader, Howe, was lying dead on his back, his blue eyes open. Hed had spots from blood in his face. Helmut Kunze sat dead in the commander's seat. The shell seemed to have hit him directly in the back. To his left sat his dead gunner. The Panzer engine had been running since noon. The driver and radio operator's hatches were lit. I had the two scouts cover forward toward the enemy and drove the Panzer under its own power almost to our position. Just before I got there, it ran out of fuel and stopped. Untersturmführer Heinz Berner, the leader of the repair squad of 6. Kompanie, pulled me the rest of the way to the hedge with his tractor. Our comrades Kunze, Howe and the gunner, whose name I do not remember, were buried in the castle garden of Coultru next to the killed Kompanie commander Helmuth Bando. The Panzer, with a new turret, was back in action a few days later."

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Post by Waffen211 » 11 Jun 2011, 07:43

I had missed the step, having a copy of the book in German. Thanks. For one photo of Bando, anyone can help me?

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Post by Helge » 11 Jun 2011, 14:06

Bando Helmut, SS-Obersturmführer aus München, Druckstück betreffend eine politische Traueranzeige zu seinem Gefallenentod (1944)

You make your request here: http://home.foni.net/~adelsforschung2/d ... ecke00.htm

There should be a picture.
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Post by helmutbando » 25 Jan 2020, 02:50

is da question about the photo of helmut bando still a case of interest? did u know him?

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Post by Georg_S » 25 Jan 2020, 08:08

Hello Helmut

I think the most of US would say yes to tour question. ☺️

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Post by eindhoven » 26 Jan 2020, 15:41

"The Kompaniechef of 5./SS-Pz.Rgt.12, SS-Ostuf. Helmut Bando was killed on June 27, 1944. Born on March 7, 1915 in Marienwerder, thanks to his physical qualities and his height of 1.91 m, he entered August 1934 in the I.Kompanie of the Leibstandarte, the company of "lange Kerle" -"big fellows". He is promoted to officer after successfully completing training at SS-Junkerschule Bad Tolz, and served a time in the PoIizei-Division."
(Source: Coll. Stephan Cazenave via Maranes Editions. Sur Le Front De Normandie, Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend (2), Panzer-Regiment 12 Normandie 1944)

partial service record;

SS-Obersturmführer Helmut Bando

07.03.1915, Marienwerder, Geburtsdatum

27.06.1944, bei Cheux Gefallen

Tödlich getroffen von MG-Feuer

Wird begraben mit soldaten seiner Kompanie in der Chateaux von Coultru

La Cambe: Block 24 Grab 196

A) Einheiten u. Dienststellung:

00.00.1934-00.00.193_ 1./ Leibstandarte-SS ""Adolf Hitler""

00.00.1940-00.00.194_ SS-Junkerschüle ""Bad Tölz""

03.01.1944-00.00.1944 Stab II. Abteilung/ SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 (3)

03.01.1944-05.02.1944 Kompanie-Führer-Lehrgang an Panzertruppenschule Bergen und Putlos

00.00.1944-27.06.1944 Kompanieführer der 5. Kompanie der II. Abteilung/ SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 ""Hitlerjugend"" (1)

B) Dienstgraden u. Beförderungen:

00.00.193_ zum SS-Mann

00.00.194_ zum SS-Untersturmführer

00.00.194_ zum SS-Obersturmführer

C) Orden u. Ehrenzeichen:

20.04.1944 Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern (1)

11.06.1944 Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (5)

23.06.1944 Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber (4)

24.07.1944 Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse (2) (Nachträglich)

D) Nachträgen:

(1) lt. Sonderbefehl 9/44 (O.U., 20.04.1944)

(2) lt. Sonderbefhl nr. 17 (O.U., 24.07.1944)

(3) lt. Regimentsbefehl nr. 1/44 (O.U., 04.01.1944) SS-U'stuf. Bando wird zur II. Abt., Abt.Stab., versetzt unter gleichzeitiger Führung Kommandierung zum Kp.-Führer-Lehrgang an der Pz.Tr.-Schule Bergen und Putlos vom 3.1. Bis 5.2.1944

(4) lt. Sonderbefehl 13 (O.U., 23.06.1944)

(5) lt. Sonderbefehl 12 von 12.06.1944 (m.W.v. 11.07.1944)

(6) SS-Nummer 99 289
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Post by Georg_S » 26 Jan 2020, 17:04

Many thanks Eindgoven

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Post by helmutbando » 12 Mar 2020, 21:06

thanks for sending this foto. helmut bando was a worrior cause he used to become one. lets not talk about the why. i am interested in knowing more about him, and what happened. also befor the day he got killed. is there any information? i also have fotos and would appreceate seeing more. we come and go. life is a part of where we are after we came and before we go again. so even he got killed, he still is alive anyhow.

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Post by helmutbando » 12 Mar 2020, 21:15

Georg_S wrote:
25 Jan 2020, 08:08
Hello Helmut

I think the most of US would say yes to tour question. ☺️

Welcome to THE AHF

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interesting. tell me more what the us would say and where they know from. interesting also would be, how he spend his last days and what he did. feels like he somehow was haunted

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Post by helmutbando » 12 Mar 2020, 21:16

Georg
interesting. tell me more what the us would say and where they know from. interesting also would be, how he spend his last days and what he did. feels like he somehow was

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