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Woll, Balthasar "Bobby" (Waffen SS)

    Date of birth:
    September 1st, 1922 (Wemmetsweiler/Saarland, Germany)
    Date of death:
    March 18th, 1996 (Wemmetsweiler, Sennestadt/Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany)
    Service number:
    SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
    Nationality:
    German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

    Biography

    Promotions:
    00.00.1942: SS-Oberschütze;
    09.11.1943: SS-Rottenführer;
    30.01.1944: SS-Unterscharführer;
    00.00.1944: SS-Scharführer;
    01.10.1944: SS-Oberscharführer.

    Credited with a total of 80 tanks destroyed.

    Career:
    15.08.1941: joined the Waffen SS
    00.00.1941: MG-Schütze, 3. Kompanie, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterieregiment 1, SS-Totenkopf-Division
    00.03.1942: WIA in the Demyansk Pocket and evacuated to a Lazarett in Germany
    00.11.1942: Panzerrichtschütze, 13. Schwere Panzer-Kompanie, SS Panzer-Regiment 1, 1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler
    00.07.1943: Operation Zitadelle - Kursk
    00.09.1943: SS-Oberschütze, Richtschütze, awarded the Iron Cross 1st class, having destroyed 80 tanks and 107 anti tank guns
    00.04.1944: SS-Uscha, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 - campaing in Normandy
    06.06.1944: SS-Uscha, Panzerkommandant,Tiger Nr. 212, I. Zug, 2. Kompanie, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101
    16.06.1944: severely WIA to the head and evacuated to a Lazarett
    00.02.1945: SS-Oscha, Ausbilder, schweren SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501, Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock
    00.05.1945: US POW

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    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Awarded on:
    July 1942
    Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)
    Awarded on:
    July 23rd, 1942
    Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)
    Awarded on:
    1943
    Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Silber
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)
    Awarded on:
    July 26th, 1942
    Demjanskschild
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Awarded on:
    1942
    Medaille
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)
    Unit:
    Richtschütze, 13.(schwere) Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler"
    Awarded on:
    October 14th, 1943
    Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
    Awarded on:
    January 1st, 1944

    Silver version
    Panzerkampfabzeichen (ohne Zahl)
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
    Unit:
    Richtschütze, 13. schwere Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1, 1. SS-Panzer-Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"
    Awarded on:
    January 16th, 1944
    The initial justification for Woll's Knight's Cross reads as follows...
    "Exceptional conduct in earlier fighting at Kharkov - action March 1943. Summer action Belgorod 1943 and present winter battles. 61 tanks destroyed as of 11/1/44, including numerous assault guns.
    During elimination of armoured penetration on 12/ and 13/1/44 in Mal.Bespechna-Chesnovka area, 16 T-34s and 3 assault guns were knocked out by the tank of SS-Rottenführer Woll, where he served as gunner. This raises his total of tanks destroyed to 80."
    Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

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