Soldbuch – Panzer Obergrenadier Mey – Panzer Grenadier Regiment 156 (116 PzDiv Windhund) – Normandy 1944 (Sold)
Description
Soldbuch to Panzer Obergrenadier Josef Mey
Born on the 8.3.1925 in Röttgen, Köln into a Catholic family , he was a construction worker.
Enlisted into the Wehrmacht in October 1943, he would see action with the:
Panzergrenadier Regiment 156 – (116 Panzer Division ‘Windhund’)Â
He was part of the 10. Pionier-Kompanie.Â
It fought the Allied landings in Normandy and was caught in the Falaise pocket. After Normandy it was down to 600 men and 12 tanks but was sent to defend Aachen.
Mey was wounded by a splinter (31b) in mid August while the division was still fighting in Normandy, Mey arrived at a hospital on the 21st of August and remained there till the 20.10.1944. He was awarded the Black Wounds Badge.
He would rejoin his unit in early 1945, the Windhund division took part in the failed Wacht am Rhein’ Operation in the Ardennes and later was stationed on the Dutch border and in March it withdrew over the Rhein. On 18 April it surrendered to the US 9th Army in the Ruhr pocket.
Known war crimes
Soldiers of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 156 shot a civilian in Rehren, Germany on 4 April 1945, for making derogatory remarks about the military and political situation in Germany
