Wehrpass Fliegerhorst Wemelghem Belgium KIA Milsbeek Holland

Wehrpass first issue to Obergefreiten Hanisch who was born in Federpol, Russia.

From 1942 onwards he served with several Luftwaffe units including Fliegerhorst Kommando Wemleghem in Belgium.

After the Allied break-out of Normandy in 1944 it headed north towards Belgium. The garrison of the Fliegerhorst left the airfield and withdrawn towards Germany.

Here he became part of Luftwaffe Bau Battalion Hauptmann Nickels.

With this unit he most probarly must have made bunkers, bridges, trenches and other construction work along the Westwall on the Dutch - German border east of Nijmegen between Kleve and Goch, Gennep around the Reichswald area.
On 30 November 1944 he was KIA by “Artillerie Voltreffer”  in Milsbeek, Holland.

He was first burried in Goch but Nowadays he rests on the German war cemetary of Kleve-Donsbruggen.

Good used condition, complete with all pages.

It comes with an letter to his mother or wife according his death.

code: C25338

Volksbund picture and Ancestry cards are for reference only and do not come with the item.