WWII German Luftwaffe Soldbuch Grouping – Obergefr Willi Strohbusch – Berliner -1 x Bandenkampftage Wounded Fighting Greek Partisans – Oberkommando der Luftwaffe Berlin-Kladow – Berlin-Kladow 1945 !

Description

Obergefr Willi Strohbusch from Berlin, who later fought in Berlin in the final days of the war and lived in Berlin after the war!

Was given twice the Führergeschenk twice, and had his own Dryse Pistol!

Soldbuch Issued in late 1940

Service with :

9.1940 – 6.1941 – Luftgaunachrichten Regiment 2

1943 – Luftgaunachrichten Regiment 2

1943 – Luftnachricthen Ers Komp – Oberkommando der Luftwaffe Kladow

1943 – late 1944 Luftnachricthen Stelle E 209 / III – Saloniki-Sedes (Greece)

1944/45 – Oberkommando der Luftwaffe Kladow Berlin

Medals/Awards

10.1943 – Black Wounds Badge – Wounded in Greece, likely has something to do with his unit clashing with Partisans.

It seems in November of 1944 – he was given a day for Kampftage gegen Banden – Fighting Day against Partisans! With a Feldpost number in Greece at the time.

Interesting entry also about sexually transmitted diseases that he was told about this in the occupied territories.

Entry Berlin April 1945 – Was warned about the forgering of paperwork in Berlin Kladow 9.April 1945! Also an entry on 10.4.1945 in Berlin Kladow was issued a first aid kit.

Berlin 1945 – Final Days and Key Events

Last Operational Airfield: As the Red Army encircled Berlin, most other airfields fell, leaving Gatow as the only one capable of handling larger aircraft.
Fierce Resistance: The airfield was fiercely contested from April 25-27. German defenders, largely composed of poorly equipped Volkssturm (home guard) units and young Luftwaffe students, put up a prolonged but ultimately unsuccessful resistance against the Soviet 47th Army’s 75th Rifle Corps.
Last Flights: The airfield facilitated some of the very last flights out of the collapsing city. Noteworthy flights included that of Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim and his companion Hanna Reitsch, who flew in via Fieseler Storch from Gatow to the city center’s improvised landing strip on the East-West Axis after Gatow itself came under heavy fire.
Glider Resupply Missions: After Gatow fell on April 27, the Luftwaffe attempted desperate, one-way glider resupply missions using DFS 230 gliders into the city center’s improvised landing areas, navigating by the light of the widespread fires. These missions, launched on the nights of April 28-29 and 29-30, delivered critically needed ammunition but resulted in heavy casualties for the pilots involved.
Soviet Capture: The Red Army captured the airfield on April 27, 1945.

The events at Kladow in April 1945 represent the final, desperate actions of a shattered Luftwaffe, which, crippled by fuel shortages and a lack of resources, was making a last stand in defense of the Nazi capital. After the war, the airfield fell into the British sector of Berlin and became the important RAF Gatow during the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift.

Comes with some of his Postwar IDs.