KVK2 and VWA NCO Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 2 Holland 1944

(D21323)
Helmut Schweitzer, NCO upcoming officer (Fahnenjunker Unteroffizier) Lufwaffe intelligence and paratroopers/Fallschirmjäger

1) War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords, 20.4.44. Signed by the temporary CO of Luftflotte 3, General der Flieger.
2) Wound Badge in Black, 10.3.45. Signed by the CO of Luftwaffenlazarett 8/III Gotha, Oberstarzt.

He served till at least April 1944 with 7./Luftnachrichten-Regiment 55, airplane guidance unit “Flugmelde-Leit-Kompanie” based in Kleveland Norway (disbanded Oct.1944). Dec.1944 he served with 3.Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 2, Dec.44 reformed in Amersfoort after the unit was disbanded after heavy losses during the battles in the Normandy and Brest. The unit was Dec.44 formed in Amersfoort Holland and was that same month active in fierce battles against the Canadian troops in the area Arnhem-Gennep-Reichswald-Goch-Wesel (Holland and Western Germany). He got wounded on 31.12.44 (most probably in Holland) and was hospitalized in the Luftwaffe hospital in Gotha.