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Johnny Knuetrell . United States Army 83rd Signal Coy. Johnny Knuetrell served in the 83rd Signal Coy, US Army during WWII. Sadly, he was killed in action.
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F Knutton . British Army F Knutton served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Spr. Charles George Kobelke . Australian Army Engineers from Western Australia. Charles George Kobelke was a POW at Stalag X111C. I am no relation, but during the war when 14 years of age, my school, in England, encouraged us to 'adopt' and write to a British POW. I chose Charles because it was said he was a newspaper man from WA.
My mother and I sent him parcels of magazines and knitwear and some tins of goodies and smokes. He replied on a few occasions and then I learned that he was being transferred to another Stalag which was supposedly for 'Blind' POWs. I received a photo from him of a strong looking man in the Australian Slouch Hat and army uniform, sitting smoking a pipe.
On discharge my mother and I were waiting to hear from him on his arrival in the UK. We never ever heard anymore. I have since learned that he was a printer with a newspaper, not a journalist, and apparently not blind!
I have obtained full information concerning Charles from the Australian National Archives. They are great to deal with. I thought this may be useful for anybody else trying to find out about the Australian forces.
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Jadwiga Kociolek . Polish People's Army Armia Krajowa-AK-Underground from Warsaw My mother, Jadwiga Kociolek, took part in the Polish People's Army (Armia Krajowa-AK-Underground) fighting against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. She was captured during the Warsaw uprising in 1944 and endured a series of imprisonments first at Mulberg, then Altenburg, Lamsdorf, and finally Oberlangen. The camp consisted mostly of women prisoners in Oberlangen which was liberated by the 1st Armoured Division under General Maczek. After marrying my father, they emigrated to Canada to Edmonton. To this day she lives in Canada and, though she is now 90 years old, she continues to educate young and old through radio broadcasts, recordings, and public speaking engagements about the history and stories which she and others endured during the wartime period.
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Flying Officer Arthur Ferdinand Koehn . Royal Canadian Air Force 1651 HCU from Quebec, Canada (d.28th Oct 1942) I have just been lucky enough to pick up the Memorial Cross belonging to Arthur Ferdinand Koehn and am looking for any information on him. I know he was killed in a test flight crash with 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit and that he is buried in Cambridge but would love to know more.
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J. A. Kok . Royal Air Force No. 320 (Netherlands) Squadron RAF from Holland (d.26th Nov 1943) On 26.11.1943 a plane a Mitchell FR146 of 320 squadron was hit by flak at 14:53 hrs (GMT) and crashed at Biville near Martinvast, France.
Crew members were:
J.A. Kok - KIA - grave Grebbeberg 8-7
Cpl. D.J. Koning - POW
Sgt. R. Overwokn - POW
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Anthony Kolar . My Grandfather, Anothony Kolar was a captured and held in Stalag 9B. He came home but didn't talk about the war. He passed in 1979. The picture is a newspaper article that my Grandmother saved.
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Sgt. C. C. Kolar . 97 Squadron
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F/O Johnny Peter Kolomic . Royal Canadian Air Force 1666 HCU from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (d.11th July 1944) Johnny Kolomic served an an Air Bomber and trained with 1666 HCU at Wombleton.
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Jozef Kondratiuk . Polish Army My father, Jozef Kondratiuk, was a prisoner in Stalag 6G, and escaped from it in, I think, 1942. At the outbreak of war he had been a student at Lwow University. He was called up to the Polish army as a reservist, and became a POW during the September campaign. After escaping, he made his way to Vichy France (with several adventures on the way), and stayed for some time in Annecy. When the Germans took direct control of this part of France, he evaded them again, crossing the Pyrenees into Spain. Here he was captured again and the Spanish authorities, who were neutral but sympathetic to the Nazis, put him in another camp, known as Miranda. Some time after this there was an agreement between Britain and Spain, and all Allied prisoners, including my father, were delivered into British custody. My father then spent six weeks in Gibraltar before being shipped to the UK. He joined the Polish army in Britain, and spent the rest of the war in Scotland. He remained in England after the war, settling in London. He died in 1985.
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Sgt. Charles Soloman Snider Konn . Royal Canadian Air Force 420 Squadron (d.9th Nov 1942) Charles Konn was the father I never knew. I was 3 when he died. He was a US citizen and went to Canada to help fight the war in Germany.
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Nick Konsuvo . USAAF 303rd Bomb Group from USA My uncle, Nick Konsuvo served with the 303rd Bomb Group (H) `The Hell's Angels', part of the 8th Air Force. He was stationed at Molesworth. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers him or any information about his particular squadron, the 444th.
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Sgt. Hermus Koomans . Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers My Dad, Sgt. Hermanus Koomans was a Dutch Allied
serviceman of the Army's REME. He married my mother Joan Dorreen Jessop who served with the ATS, in 1946. Dad had recently been repatriated from
Belsen POW Camp in Germany. They lived in Holland but later we migrated to Australia.
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Stg3. Howard Stanley Koontz . United States Navy USS Boise from Baltimore, Maryland
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F/O. Vaclav Kopecky DFC.. Royal Air Force 111 Squadron from Czechoslovakia Vaclav Kopecky crashed after take-off with his Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VB (coded JU-?) from North Weald Airfield, due to engine failure after striking a gull which got into the carburettor air intake on 18th of December 1941, a few minutes after 10:30. He suffered heavy injuries and was taken to St. Margaret Hospital in Epping, where his right leg had to be amputated.
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Rflmn. Johannes Martinus "John" Koppens . British Army 2nd Battalion Cameronians (d.27th May 1940) John Koppens was a Rifleman with 2nd Battalion, Cameronians who died on 27th of May 1940 aged 20, he is buried at the Esquelmes War Cemetery in Belgium.
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Cpl Bertram Hans Kornfeld . US Army from Philadelphia, PA My father, Bertram Kornfeld who celebrated his 90th birthday last week was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. He was a POW at Stalag 4B. He escaped from the camp after the camp was liberated by the Russians. He has many stories that he likes to share that I will add to this posting at a later date.
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Charles Kornhauser . French Army from Bordeaux, France Charles Kornhauser was a member of the French Army. He was captured at the Maginot Line. He spent 3 years in Stalag 12B. He escaped in 1943.
He fathered me, his son, in Beaurepaire, Isere, France. He emigrated to USA and docked in NYC on May 10, 1951. Charles died in April 1991.
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Lt. Shalwa Koroshinadze . Russian Army from Georgia My grandfather Koroshinadze Shalwa, Georgian Lieutenant, was caught at Baxan on the 27th of September 1941 and was sent first to Stalag 367 then to Stalag 13C. His number was 11181. I've searched for documents and turned out that he was escaped from Stalag 13C on the 18th of August 1944 and was not caught. A document about his successful escape was sent to Wermacht Wast only in 5th of December 1944. Maybe he has any information about this fact or person? This is my grand fathers finite trace, we know nothing after that.
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F/Sgt. Peter Korsman . Royal Australian Air Force 460 Sqn. from Port Macquarie
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Per Walderhaug Korsnes . Royal Air Force No. 333 (Norwegian) Squadron (d.30th Apr 1944) Per Korsnes served with No. 333 (Norwegian) Squadron
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M/Sgt. Matthew H. Korzyniowski . US Army 2nd Btn. 172nd Field Artillery Rgt.
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SF Kosh . British Army Royal Fusiliers SF Kosh served with the Royal Fusiliers British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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2nd Lt. Eugene Simeon Koshkin SSM.. US Army Coy. I, 3rd Btn. 15th Infantry Regiment from Ithaca, New York, USA (d.24th Jan 1945) US Army 2nd Lt. Eugene Koshkin was my cousin.
The following is an excerpt from “Riviera to the Rhine”, a work by US military historians Dr. Jeffrey J. Clarke and Robert Ross Smith that details the advance of the US Seventh Army from the French Mediterranean coast northward through France and into Germany during the last full year of World War 2. The excerpt is from a section that sets forth an action involving elements of the US 3rd Infantry Division and German mechanised units that occurred on 23rd to 25th of January 1945 and was part of the Battle of the Colmar Pocket in Alsace, France. The action took place a few kilometers northwest of the village of Riedwihr, which is located northeast of Colmar in the Heasbourg Gap area of the Vosges mountains:
“Late in the afternoon of 23 January 1945, all three of Col. McGarr's 30th Infantry Regiment battalions suddenly found themselves in the midst of a general German counterattack from elements of the 708th Volksgrenadier Division and the 280th Assault Gun Battalion (which consisted of heavily armored Jagdpanzers mounted on Mark IV and V tank chassis). The 30th Regiment was routed and fell back across the River Ill in disarray.
At 20:30 that night, as the 30th regrouped on the west side of the Ill, 3rd Infantry Division commander Maj. Gen. O'Daniel ordered Lt. Col. Hallett D. Edson, commanding the 15th Regiment, to secure the bridgehead. He immediately sent Companies I and K of the 3/15th Infantry Regiment directly through Guemar and the Colmar woods and over the River Ill, following the trail that the 1/30th Infantry Regiment had taken twenty-four hours earlier.
At around 03:00, Company I of the 3/15th Infantry arrived to occupy a crossroads a few hundred yards east of the Maison Rouge farm near the river. As dawn came, the Company I commander 2nd Lt. Eugene Simeon Koshkin, finding the crossroads completely exposed and without any cover, requested permission to pull the unit back to the tree line, but was instructed to hold in place. Division engineers were just completing a new treadway bridge to the north, and armored support could be expected shortly.
For the next several hours the men of Company I frantically chipped away at the frozen ground, digging up at best a few inches of dirt, ice, and snow and wondering when the tanks would arrive. They finally came about three hours later, but from the wrong side. At 08:00 on the 24th, the Germans launched their second counterattack against the bridgehead with thirteen heavy assault guns, a company or more of infantry, and a few tanks. 2nd Lt. Koshkin and his forward observer ticked off the German progress for many to hear… 800 yards away… then 600… and then 500. A few panicked and fled, and others asked their officers, "Can we go?" The rest stayed, although, as one sergeant later recalled, "we all practically had one foot out of the foxhole”, and when 2nd Lt. Koshkin finally made the decision to pull back, "we didn't have to give the order very loud".
Shortly after 08:00, Company I was overrun. Some soldiers were crushed under German tank treads or machine-gunned where they lay. Others managed to fall back into the Company K area closer to the river; still others were shot while trying to surrender. Most of the 3d Platoon of Company I were thought to have been captured. At last, around 14:30 that afternoon, the 1/15th Infantry counterattacked from the north with more armor, finally relieving those at the bridge site.”
That morning, trying to give the men under his command more time to find cover as they withdrew from the engagement at the crossroads, 2nd Lt. Koshkin charged forward and attempted single-handedly to take out one of the attacking armored vehicles. In doing so, he was shot and killed. For this action, he was posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal for valor in combat. The citation of this award reads, in part: “His gallant actions and dedicated devotion to duty, without regard for his own life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army”.
2nd Lt. Eugene Simeon Koshkin is buried in the Epinal American Cemetery in Dinoze, France.
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Lieutenant Wladyslaw Kosmider . Polish Army 10th Regiment Infantry from Krepa, Poland I came across this website and was wondering if anyone would have any information about my father who was a POLISH SOLDIER, fighting against the germans and captured, September 1939, in the September Campaign. He went to POW CAMP, Oflag II A and IIE, from 1939 to 1944, and another camp 1944 to 1945 when liberated by the British.
He worked for the BRITISH ARMY OF THE RHINE, Major General L. M. Weinstock. as a translator, and Polish Military Centre, served as a superintendant with MSO(WS) in 1947, Hamburg area, with Staff Capt Kirby.
I'm not sure of alot, like everyone here, he did not answer questions.
I should have done this inquiry a long long time ago, but with internet, I'm just learning how much is out here.
This is a shot in the dark, but maybe someone was a POW in the same place? Anything would be great help!
thanks so much.
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F/O. Anthony Michael Kovacich . Royal Canadian Air Force 115 Squadron from Edinburgh (d.30th Aug 1944) Flying Office (Air Bomber) Anthony Kovacach was the Husband of Jane A. Kovacich of Edinburgh.
He was aged 28 when he died and is buried in the Ove Churchyard in Denmark.
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Lt.Jr. Wladimir Wasiliy Kowalenko . USSR Red Army 279th Rifle Division from Feodosia (d.1st October 1943) My grandfather, Kowalenko Wladimir, has been missing since beginning of WWII.
Only recently I have found information that he had been captured on 8th of August 1941 and executed by the Gestapo on 1st of October 1943.
He was 29 years old.
He had a wife and two small children 6 and 2 years old.
They grew without knowing what had happened to their father.
They were born in 1935 and 1941.
He was born on 25th of May 1914.
Graduated Agricultural College and then, in 1939, had been drafted into the Armed Forces as an officer, 279th Rifle Division.
The military base was stationed near Kosiv, Ukraine.
One of the documents stated that he had also been in Oflag XIII D (62).
That is all I know about my Grandfather.
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Eugeniusz Kowalski . A few souvenirs from my father Eugeniusz Kowalski in Stalag XXIA.
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Pte. Alex Kozaway . Canadian Army Special Infantry Coy. Royal Canadian Infantry Corps from Alberta, Canada (d.30th Nov 1944) Alex Kozaway was the son of Mrs. P. Kozoway of Alberta, Canada.
He is buried in the Calvary (Prospect) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Bermuda.
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Sgt. Philipp Kozlov . Russian Army Pioneer Battalion from Borova (d.26th Oct 1942) Philipp Kozlov was my grand-grandfather. He was born in 1905 somewhere in Kharkov Governorate. He had served as a militsioner (Soviet police officer), but dropped the service to get married to my grand-grandmother, whose father was against his daughter's marriage to a cop. After that he had worked in a shop and in a bank, before WWII started. Philipp joined the army and served as a sapper.
He was captured by Germans on 7th of July 1942 in Kantemirovka and kept at Stalag 4C. He died on 26th Oct 1942 because of pneumonia. Sergeant Philipp Kozlov was burried on 28th of October 1942 in Willsdorf (Vilsnice).
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