Führungsbuch NCO Geschützführer Kreuzer Lützow and Z28

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Walter Sanzenbacher, Kroegsmarine NCO Bootmannsmaat board gunner Navy cruisers and destroyers
1) Kriegsmarine Führungsbuch, 1.10.40. With Kriegsmarine uniform pass photo.
2) „Geschützführerzeugnis, board gun leader lisence, 24.9.43.

Entitled to: Sports Badge, Iron Cross 2nd Class (5.1.43) and “Flottenkriegsabzeichen” Navy Cruisers war badge (15.1.43).

Born 1922 in Stuttgart. He volunteered the Kriegsmarine and served: Oct.-Nov.40 with 18.Schiffs-Stamm-Abteilung in Buxtehude; Nov.40-Mar.41 on board of the cruiser Emden; Apr.41-Mar.43 on board of the cruiser Lützow as 28cm board gunner; Jul.-Dec.43 schooled as NCO and at the Schiffs-Artillerie-Schule in Sassnitz for board gun leader training; Dec.43-Mar.45 on board of the destroyer Z28 as a 15cm TbtsK C/36 board gun leader “Geschützführer”.

Cruiser “Deutschland” “Lutzow”. Cruiser “Deutschland was renamed “Lützow” in 1940. From March 1941, Lützow was active around Norway to join the forces arrayed against Allied shipping to the Soviet Union. She ran aground during a planned attack on convoy PQ 17, which necessitated a return to Germany for repairs. She next saw action at the Battle of the Barents Sea with the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, which ended with a failure to destroy the convoy JW 51B. Engine problems forced a series of repairs culminating in a complete overhaul at the end of 1943, after which the ship remained in the Baltic.

Z28 Narvik 1936A class destroyer: Source www.german-navy.de. In March 1943 the ship escorted the Scharnhorst back to Norway and was damaged by a bomb hit in Trondheim in July 1943. After repairs it was attached to the 6th destroyer flotilla in the Baltic Sea at the end of 1943, where it was used for shore bombardments mining operations and escort missions for the CA Prinz Eugen . On 24.10.1944, Z28 was hit by eight bombs dropped by Soviet aircraft, causing repairs until February 1945. The ship was finally sunk by British bombers on 06.03.1945 in the Baltic Sea near Saßnitz in shallow water.