Group Sergeant Nachrichten Felddivision artillery and NSG5

(D22057)
Walter Pfaff, staff sergeant (Stabsfeldwebel) radio operator (and later probably also radar specialist) Luftwaffe communications, Luftwaffe field division Artillery and night dive bomber unit

1) Soldbuch, 4.9.39. With uniform pass photo. Heavily used condition, several pages loose and stamps denazified.
2) War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords, 25.11.44. Heavily used condition. Stamp denazified.
3) POW personal data sheet, 8.6.45.

Also entitled to: long service medal 4th Class, Sudetenland annexation medal, Wound Badge in Black (12.2.42) and Winter War Medal (5.1.43).

Professional soldier born 1912 living in Bad Sulza-Weimar. He served: Aug.-Oct.39 with Nachrichten-Abteilung(mot)3; Oct.39-Feb.42 with Nachrichten-Regiment 102, 1940 active in France, 1941-1942 active in Middle Russia ; wounded Feb.42 and hospitalized in Radom Poland and for recovery with some replacement units; Jul.-Nov.42 with an aircraft-reporting unit under Luftflotte 1, Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment zbV 1 (renamed Luftnachrichten-Ausbildungs-Regiment 306); Nov.42-Jan.43 with Luftwaffe Artillerie-Regiment 13 of the 13.Luftwaffen-Felddivision at that moment formed in Bergen Germany; 1943-Jan.44 with Luftwaffe Artillerie-Regiment 20 of the 20.Luftwaffen-Felddivision, occupation force in Juttland Denmark; Feb.-Mar.44 with aircraft-reporting-radar testing facility H.Ln.T.L. in Cottbus; Mar.-May 44 Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment 8 in Breslau/Krakau/Prag; May-Jun.44 A.-u.S.-Regiment Luftflotte 4 in Poland; Jun.44-May 45 with Luftnachrichten-Zug(mot)/Nachtschlachtgruppe 5, a night dive bomber unit active in Rumania and Hungary (bases: Manzar, Nyiregihaza, Neumarkt, Görgenyaroszfalu, Klausenburg, Koeroeslandy, Börgönd, Sarosd, Nagygmand, Allensteig).
Several weapons issued: K98, MP38, P38.