Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by John Toner » 08 Sep 2017, 09:04

@20: on another website this is identified as Erich Bärenfänger.

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by GWorldmann » 08 Sep 2017, 10:52

Thanks!
Hauptmann Fessmann left and who?
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@35 - Id: Hptm. Fritz Fessmann (left) & Olt. Helmut Lutze


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Rittm. (Rudolf?) Koppe

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Post by JoeW » 08 Sep 2017, 15:15

FANGIO wrote:Hi everybody!
Any idea on this one posted by "JRA" from http://www.wehrmacht-awards (forum):
Does anyone have any personal information about Rudolf Koppe? Where was he born? An inquiry on another forum concerned a pistol that had been acquired with an inscription on the slide: " Rittm. Koppe" above "Pritzwalk (Priegnitz)". And we aren't talking about any type of presentation piece. This was a combat used pistol: a Browning Hi-Power of 1949 vintage. Matching a person to a single family name is sketchy of course, but wasn't the rank Rittm. used more by cavalry officers, and Koppe was in the Panzer corps. I searched the old reprint of senior Heer general and staff officers and found no Koppe. Thank you for any assistance.
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by Sinjoorke » 08 Sep 2017, 21:01

p.607, by fakatona » 18 May 2015, 01:20, pic. unknow07 Major mit Ritterkreuz.jpg is Maj. Gerhard Behnke.
p.632, pic. p2 is Ofw. Friedrich Hengstler.
p.909, pic. img832f+.jpg is not Skrzipek, but Hptm. d. R. Kurt Veth. See full pic. p.633.
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by GWorldmann » 08 Sep 2017, 22:22

thanks!
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Id: Hans Bujak
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by chris44 » 09 Sep 2017, 00:10

@ 31 on this page
Hans BUJAK

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by alabamaguy » 09 Sep 2017, 03:33

Hello, I seldom post but I wanted to ask if someone could re evaluate the Kriegsmarine wedding photo on page 187. I believe that the Knights cross winner is not Jost Brokelmann but is rather Ulrich Heyse former commander of the U 128. He became a Korvettenkapitän after April 1943 and that would date the photo as being after this date. You need to look at a picture of Heyse without a cap and you will see the distinctive hair line. Also, the officer getting married is a U-boat man. I do not see that Brokelmann ever reached the rank of Korvettenkapitän.

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by Sinjoorke » 09 Sep 2017, 12:44

Hello alabamaguy,
I think you are right here. I also see that the nosewings of Brökelmann are somewhat wider than those of Heyse and the man on the weddingphoto.
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by chris44 » 09 Sep 2017, 13:25

I would confirm as well Ulrich Heyse

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by Panzerspitze » 10 Sep 2017, 00:51

Who's this RKT seen in Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 525 around the 15-min mark, during Hermann Göring's visit to a Channel coast airfield sometime during the Battle of Britain?
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by Sinjoorke » 10 Sep 2017, 01:16

p.623, pic. Gerhard Willing.jpg, is not Willing, but Otl. Walter Rödlich.
p.632, pic. p1 is certainly not Unfried. To my opinion he looks very much like Hptm. Walter von Gazen (Gaza). I have no proof yet, so if someone could confirm?
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by malvinas82 » 10 Sep 2017, 03:26

Sinjoorke wrote: p.632, pic. p1 is certainly not Unfried. To my opinion he looks very much like Hptm. Walter von Gazen (Gaza). I have no proof yet, so if someone could confirm?
Hugo, it's Unteroffizier Willi Hackbarth

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by GWorldmann » 10 Sep 2017, 07:51

thanks!
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Id: Berthold Graßmuck
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@42 - Id: RK Verleihung for Alfred Hemmann

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@43 - Id: Anton Berg

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@44 - Id: Friedrich-Karl Cranz

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by John Toner » 10 Sep 2017, 09:00

@41: Berthold Graßmuck
@44: Friedrich-Karl Cranz.

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by John Toner » 10 Sep 2017, 12:44

I think @43 might be Anton Berg, mainly because of the decorations, and the fact that Berg was wearing a cloth DKiG when he was awarded his RK.

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