Soldbuch – Luftwaffe NCO – JG Mölders – Portrait & Capture Papers – Worked for US Army!

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Soldbuch – Luftwaffe NCO – JG Mölders  Portrait & Capture Papers – Worked for US Army! 

Surname – Köhler 

An interesting Grouping to a Luftwaffe NCO, comes with his capture/discharge Papers, a great portrait of him and a letter stating he worked well for the US Army heavy equipment Section. 

He received a Führer Present – 10.1943. 

He seen extensive service in the Luftwaffe – Likely as a Mechanic. 

He even served a short time in JG Mölders, before being thrown into combat with 

Grenadier E. U . A Batl 116 –

in the late states of 1944, likely due to the fact the LW played less a role in Combat on the frontline and the need for soldiers was more than ever. 

He was issued with equipment and a new uniform – Now he was in the Wehrmacht! 

He Had his own Pistol a model – Dreyse. 

Mobilised under – Codename ‘’Leuthen’’ they marched to the enemy (US Forces) on March 1945. 

See: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/InfErsBat/InfErsBat116-R.htm

http://taskforcebaum.de/germany/dleuthen.html

His unit was attached to Grendier – Ersatz Regiment 519, and his unit was placed in Ostheim just north of Hanau in Germany. (He would later surrender to US Forces and work for them as a Engineer).

Its interesting to note that he was a member of a Wehrmacht Unit that stood in front of General Patton on his reckless Mission to free soldiers from Hammelburg, one of the last greatest blunders of US Forces and was a complete failure – Task Force Baum was destroyed near Hammelburg and they were in turn interned. One of the Last small Victories of the Germans in the closing states of WW2! It would take two weeks to read the Camp at Hammelburg and thus its liberation. The US Army lost many tanks and men, and all off the 300 Soldiers sent on that mission fell into enemy hands or was killed in Action from second class german soldiers and Volkssturm Units. 

See: http://www.taskforcebaum.de

A nice interesting grouping to an interesting NCO.