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On all sides they are leaving us.
Another warrior enters Valhalla.
Moderator: johankreig
And when this photo was taken after the failed attack in La Villeneuve,June 9th, 14h30, he is tired,he saw the burning tankists and the Canadians smashed under the Panther's tracks....At the end of the morning of June 9th,an attack was planned to seize the Norrey village (tu dois surement connaitre,camarade normand !),as a starting point for a future offensive of the HJ division up North....The attack was made by the 3rd panzerkompanie of the HJ (strength 12 Panthers) ,commanded by an army officer, Hauptmann Lüdemann (who replaced SS-Ostuf. von Ribbentrop,son of the Foreign Affairs Minister,who was wounded and in a hospital) The Otto Funk platoon was going to provide the accompanying infantry.They all fell in an ambush by 6 Sherman Tanks and 2 or 4 well-camouflaged 6 pounds canadians antitanks guns,and infantry with PIATs....
7 Panthers were destroyed on the spot...3rd panzerkompanie lost 16 deads,17 severely woundeds and one prisonner (SS tankist Werner Uhr who lost a leg). The infantry platoon fell under artillery fire.Tanks and infantry replied to the village of La Villeneuve where the woundeds were regrouped in a bar... The woundeds tankists were always burning alive,their skins hanging down from flesh and bones,some enclosed in a strange silence,others screaming histerically .... In the bar,some mechanics of the panzerregiment rubbed them with motor oil... it's a wonderful balsam for burns,the older ones learned this front recipe in the Eastern Front.
Hoffman Grink wrote:I think he was about 17 or 18 in the photo I posted - Looks much older though - Mind - during the assault on Norrey he saw things no man should......
And when this photo was taken after the failed attack in La Villeneuve,June 9th, 14h30, he is tired,he saw the burning tankists and the Canadians smashed under the Panther's tracks....At the end of the morning of June 9th,an attack was planned to seize the Norrey village (tu dois surement connaitre,camarade normand !),as a starting point for a future offensive of the HJ division up North....The attack was made by the 3rd panzerkompanie of the HJ (strength 12 Panthers) ,commanded by an army officer, Hauptmann Lüdemann (who replaced SS-Ostuf. von Ribbentrop,son of the Foreign Affairs Minister,who was wounded and in a hospital) The Otto Funk platoon was going to provide the accompanying infantry.They all fell in an ambush by 6 Sherman Tanks and 2 or 4 well-camouflaged 6 pounds canadians antitanks guns,and infantry with PIATs....
7 Panthers were destroyed on the spot...3rd panzerkompanie lost 16 deads,17 severely woundeds and one prisonner (SS tankist Werner Uhr who lost a leg). The infantry platoon fell under artillery fire.Tanks and infantry replied to the village of La Villeneuve where the woundeds were regrouped in a bar... The woundeds tankists were always burning alive,their skins hanging down from flesh and bones,some enclosed in a strange silence,others screaming histerically .... In the bar,some mechanics of the panzerregiment rubbed them with motor oil... it's a wonderful balsam for burns,the older ones learned this front recipe in the Eastern Front.