Information:
USA Airborne & Fallschirmjager Personalities:
This section details information
relating to individuals of the USA & German Paratroops and
airborne forces during world War Two. Please feel free to email
me with any coments or improvements to this information.
1.
Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke.Was a winner of the Knights
Cross with Swords, Oak Leaves, and Diamonds, one of only 27
people in the German military awarded this award. Image courtesy
of and copyright to Marco Ortelli.
2.
Donald H Baldwin 551st PIB.Don Baldwin was killed
in February 1945, four months before the end of WW2. He served
in the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (PIB), part of the
First Airborne Task Force - a unit made up of American and British
personnel. This is his known history, detailed by his Great
Nephew Dan Baldwin, son of Kenneth Joseph Baldwin, Don’s
only nephew.