WW2 German Medal Certificates – Iron Cross and Wounds Badge – Heeres-Flak-Artillerie-Abteilung 283 – 24. Panzer-Division

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Nice set for the 24th Panzer Division, 

Both belong to Obergefreiter Hackenberg who was serving with:

Heeres-Flak-Artillerie-Abteilung 283 and Panzer Artillerie Regiment 89 (Both under the 24th Panzer Division). 

he 24. Panzer-Division was formed in November 1941 from 1. Kavallerie-Division in East Prussia. It was transferred to France in April 1942 and to the southern sector of the Eastern front in June 1942 where it remained until most of it was destroyed in Stalingrad.

The remaining elements was sent to France and it was reformed there in March 1943. It was transferred to Italy in August following the Italian surrender. It was sent to the Eastern front in October and withdrew through the Ukraine suffering heavy losses. It fought in Hungary and Slovakia before being transferred to East Prussia and it surrendered to the Soviet Red Army at the end of the war.

Iron Cross Second Class – signed by Generalmajor Gustav-Adolf von Nostitz-Wallwitz (Knights Cross Winner) see below for the information surrounding his death.  

25.03.1945; severely WIA by shrapnel in the abdomen during the fightings in Belga peninsula in the Heiligenbeil pocket and transported to Eckenförde hospital
27.03.1945: DOW – died of his wounds and buried with full military honours by a British general
His youngest son, born in January 1945 was christened on the lid of the coffin.

 

Wounds Badge in Black – This is signed by a Hauptmann von Ausburg. 

Comments: 

24 PD items are very sought after and have became very hard to find. 

 

 

Additional information

Weight .5 oz
Dimensions 30 × 30 × 30 in