Monday, June 24, 2013

Image: Guitar in Normandy


Normandy 1944, near Buron:  The man on the left side of this photograph is Untersturmfuhrer Franz-Joseph Kneipp of III./SS-PanzerGrenadier Regiment 25 (12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division).  He sits on the edge of a trench and plays guitar for other members of the unit during a lull in the fighting.  On the right is Battalion Adjutant Kurt Bergmann, and just out of sight to the left is Battalion Commander Obersturmbannfuhrer Karl-Heinz Milius.  Kneipp is wearing a Waffen SS Plane Tree pattern tunic (Platanenmuster), while Bergmann is wearing a Splinter Pattern tunic (Splittertarn).

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