Himmelskamp, Bernhard

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Date of birth:: December 21st, 1919 (Grüppenbühren/Delmenhorst, Germany)
Date of death:: August 29th, 1943 (South of Orel, USSR)
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Obergefreiter (Corporal)
Unit:: Richtschütze 4./Panzer-Regiment 35
Awarded on:: September 13th, 1943

Awarded in recognition of his destroying a total of 40 enemy tanks by the time of his death.

Awarded posthumously.

Sources

- HUß, JÜRGEN & SONDERMANN, HEINZ-WERNER, Ritterkreuzträger im Mannschaftsstand 1941-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2009.

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