Oberloskamp, Walther

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Date of birth:: January 27th, 1920 (Friedeberg/Löwenberg (Silesia), Germany)
Date of death:: June 26th, 1944 (Near Minsk, USSR)
Nationality:: German

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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit:: Zugführer 3./Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 667
Awarded on:: May 10th, 1943

Awarded for his personal and command successes during March 1943 while serving in the sector of the 98. Infanterie-Division (near Djuki). In just a few days Oberloskamp destroyed 40 enemy tanks.

Sources

- THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück, Germany, 1985.

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