Original Award document of Unteroffizier Peter Plützer, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his first wound sustained on August 19, 1944 while serving with the 5. Batterie/ gem. Flak-Abteilung z.b.V. 11400 during the Battle of Normandy – Falaise Pocket! Signed by an unidentified Doctor of the Reserve-Lazarett Bremen-Vogesack. Has been folded once in the past and the normal wear and tear. Good condition.
There’s a book on this Flak-Abteilung, written by Didier Lodieu: “The Flak-Abteilung zbV 11400 arrived late on the Norman front, at the beginning of August 1944. The situation was already particularly precarious for the Germans, whose front was punctured by Operation Cobra and could not be sealed off. Arrived in the region of Flers, Sourdeval, Mortain, she is in charge of protecting the axes of retreat of the various components of the 7. Army, in particular of the 2. Panzer-Division, which seek to escape from the surrounding encirclement which is emerging. It is then the fighting around Trun and Saint-Lambert-sur-Dives where certain parts support the 9. SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen to maintain a corridor to allow the surrounded units to extract themselves from the pocket. The 331. Infanterie-Division also benefits from its support in Gacé against the 5th US Armored Division.”
