Bonjour,
I'm French, I'm sorry to didn't write in german, I think it's better that if I used a web translator.
I make research about the 336.Infanterie-Division during the event 'Englisches Fallschirmjäger Unternehmen bei Cap d'Antifer in der Nacht von 27-28 Feb. 1942'. It was a raid on a Luftwaffe radiolocation post in Normandy (Frankreich). I live there and I used to be to make research about the British side, but I would like to know more about the German part, practically unknown. I have many reports of the division about this night. But I would like to know more about the men who involved during this attack. I believed many of them were kill in action on the Eastern front.
The 336.Infanterie-Division occupied Le Havre area in Normandy during this era. I'm particularly interested about the Infanterie-Regiment 685 who was the nearest unit of the Heer of the parachute attack.
I never found a book about the division. I don't know if there is an historian specialized about it. Maybe you know? Can I submit names identities to you? If some of them were kill in action later, we maybe know more about them. I don't know…
All of this men served in the I.R.685:
- Oberleutnant Huhn, commanding the 1.Kompanie, I./I.R.685. He was the first to give the alert when he saw the British aircraft dropped the paratroopers.
- Oberfeldwebel VORMSCHLAG was in the Brunevalschlucht Stützpunkunt.
- Obergefreiter ARNDT Max (killed in action during the attack, 26.05.1911-28.02.1942).
- Oberschutze HÖRMANDINGER was badly wounded during the attack.
- SCHMIDT Georg was a telephonist who was capture by the British and went in England. I don't know if he survived the war.
- Soldat SCHMITZ Adolf was killed in action during the attack. After an ambush, he lost his patrol and followed a British section that he believed to be his unit (it was the night).
- Schutze Karl WINKLER
- Schutze TEWES was prisoner of war after to be wounded on the neck. British paratroops took him in England. I don't know if he survived the war.
- Unteroffizier TREINIS
- Major PASCHKE : Commanding Officier of the 1.Bataillon.
- Feldwebel GATZWILLER
A little patrol of the I.R.687 was also concerned directly. It was commanding by: Unteroffiziere PETERMANN
Except for the death, I don't know their firstnames. I was looking for Sterbebilder of them, but it turned out to be unsuccessful. Is there group photos of the division that exists of the 1941-1942 era? Is there a database of Sterbebilds?
I hope you can help.