Document Group Crimea. Pionier Horch-Zug (!)

A group of documents from the Oberpioniers Fritz Strode. Strode served with Pionier Horchzug 1. An extremely unusual and rarely encountered unit.

The Pionier-Horch-Kompanien were pioneer units of the miner troops who were responsible for fending off expected miner attacks. Other tasks included detecting the enemys underground mining activities and setting up listening and listening barriers to monitor weakly occupied sections and wide, frozen bodies of water. Comprised of documents for:

– Eastern Front Medal.

– Black Wound Badge.

– Crimea Shield (unusual design).

– Silver Wound Badge.

– Informationen from the Deutschen Dienstselle, that Fritz Strode was killed on 17.11.1943