3rd Reich Besitzzeugnis und Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 im Schwarz

In an excellent condition an award document and wound badge in black The document is made out to Unteroffizier Hermann Kröger from the II. Flak-Brigade Regiment 14 (gem. Mot.) Gemichste Motorisiert (mixed motorised) He received the award for his 1st battle wound from Oberfeldartz und Chefarzt from the Reserve-Lazarett in Göttingen. Which is the reserve military hospital. The date would suggest that the NCO was wounded during the battle of Operation Bagration from the Soviets. Some history of the 2nd Flak brigade After losing the Battle of Kursk the year before, Army Group Center and with it the II Anti-Aircraft Corps had to retreat in fierce rearguard fighting almost to the old Soviet border of 1939. The completely weakened German armies were able to re-engage the front in a massive effort, but the Soviet Operation Bagration, which began on June 22, 1944, led to the total collapse of Army Group Center. The units of the II Anti-Aircraft Corps also became entangled in this vortex. While their units were once again able to display significant numbers of tank fighting vehicles, this did not change the units' decline. For example, the 18th Anti-Aircraft Division was trapped in the Vitebsk pocket and suffered heavy losses in men and material. In the course of the Warsaw Uprising from August 1944, individual anti-aircraft detachments of the II Anti-Aircraft Corps were also involved, but not in urban warfare, but in securing Warsaw's airfields. Individual anti-aircraft battlegroups, their exact assignment is still unknown, but were also used in the first days of the uprising in the Warsaw city center itself. Until the end of 1944, the subordinate units of the II Anti-Aircraft Corps were also involved in fierce defensive fighting in East Prussia.