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Two technical manuals identified to the 21st Panzer Division…
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Two technical manuals identified to the 21st Panzer Division…
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Lot no. 380
Two technical manuals identified to the 21st Panzer Division
Comprising a firing manual for the Granatbüchse 39 (Gr.B.39) grenade launcher & a D119 weapons technical manual dated 1940.
Annotations by a non-commissioned officer dated 10 November 1943 on both booklets.
Feldpost Number allocated to Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 155 - 21st Panzer Division.
Feldpost-Nr : 25354 A
(Mobilization-1.1.1940) 1. Battery Artillery-Regiment 110
(25.9.1940-15.2.1941) 7. Battery Artillery-Regiment 74
(15.2.1942-30.7.1942) gestrichen, wurde Fp.Nr. 17864 B
(10.2.1943-23.8.1943) Stab II u. Einheit Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 155
The 21st Panzer Division was sent to North Africa as part of the Afrika-Korps in August 1941 and was destroyed in Tunisia in May 1943.
Reconstituted in France in July 1943, it took part in the fighting in Normandy from 6 June 1944, after which it was destroyed in the Falaise pocket.
At the beginning of June 1944, the regiment's command post was located at Saint-André-sur-Orne. The battalion command post of the 1st Battalion, under Captain Feckler, was at Mathieu.
The 1st Battery was based at Beuville, the 2nd Battery at Périers-sur-le-Dan and the 3rd Battery at Colomby-sur-Thaon. The command post of the IInd Division, under the command of Captain Hans Thannenberger, was located at May-sur-Orne. The command post of the 3rd Division, under the command of Captain Freiherr von Ziegeser, was located east of Thury-Harcourt.
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