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Farewell to a Friend, Normandy, France 5th August 1944 by David Pentland. (P) - Direct Art

Farewell to a Friend, Normandy, France 5th August 1944 by David Pentland. (P)


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Farewell to a Friend, Normandy, France 5th August 1944 by David Pentland. (P)

Kurt Knispel rescues his Commander Hans Fendsack after heavy attacks on the Tiger IIs of 1st Company, Heavy Tank Battalion 503 by allied fighter bombers. Despite being pulled to safety Oberfeldwebel Fendsack died later that night from his wounds. For 4 years they had been friends and comrades.
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Item Code : DP0124PFarewell to a Friend, Normandy, France 5th August 1944 by David Pentland. (P) - This Edition
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Original pencil drawing by David Pentland.

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Size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm) Rubbel, Alfred
+ Artist : David Pentland


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Other editions of this item : Farewell to a Friend, Normandy, France 5th August 1944 by David Pentland.DP0124
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PRINTSigned limited edition of 35 prints. Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 23cm) Decker, Karl-Heinz
+ Artist : David Pentland


Signature(s) value alone : £35
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Limited edition of 15 artist proofs. Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 23cm) Decker, Karl-Heinz
+ Artist : David Pentland


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PRINTPresentation of 2 prints. Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 23cm) Decker, Karl-Heinz
Stephan, Eberhard
Lutz, Hans
+ Artist : David Pentland


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The signature of Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel (deceased)

Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel (deceased)
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Alfred Rubbel was born in Tilsit on June 28, 1921, and volunteered for the Wehrmacht at the age of eighteen. After his basic training in the infantry replacement regiment 21 and his transfer to the armoured weapon, Alfred Rubbel began the Russian campaign on 22nd June 1942 in the 9th Panzer Regiment 29 of the 12th Panzer Division. First as a charge guard in the chief battalion, then as a guardsman, he experienced the rapid advance of the Army Group to the east. In the fighting around Leningrad on September 3rd, 1941, wounded by grenade splinters, he was transferred to the homeland. In January 1942 he returned to his unit, he took part in the fighting at the Volkhov. After refreshing and rebuilding his company in Silesia, he returned to Panzer Regiment 4 with the long-handled cannon to the Eastern Front. As an unofficial and tank commander, his path led him on a long Panzer raid to the West Caucasus, where the battles in Eastern Caucasus were connected between September and December 1942. In December 1942, he and his comrades in Putlos and Paderborn began the conversion to Panzer VI Tiger. Went to 503th Panzer Division 503, and set in the railway transport in the direction of Rostov, he took part in the retreat to the Dnieper and the battle for the Kessel of Cherkassy as a Panzer commander at Operation Zitadelle, the largest tank battle of the Second World War. After officers' training courses in Ohrdruf and Krampnitz in December 1944, he moved to the 3rd Panzer Division 503, he fought in the King (Tiger II) in Hungary and Austria. At the end of the war, lieutenant of the reserve Alfred Rubbel can look back on a total balance of 57 tank victories in 79 Panzer battles on 81 deployments in the tank and 41 months on the front. He was awarded the Iron Cross I and II. Rubbel was a close friend of Kurt Knispel, a fellow tank commander of Pz Abt 503 and top-scoring Panzer Ace.

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