Unteroffizier Martin Burmester
s.Pz.Abt. 503/2. Kp
The photo above was taken direct in Burmesters appartment in Hamburg when the awards and the docs where still together. Dale R. Ritter (bottom in the middle) visited Burmester (on the right) several times to speak with him concerning his book-series «The Tiger Project». On the left side Dr. Günter Polzin.
Nice Documents from NCO Martin Burmester who served by the schwere Panzerabteilung 503, second company. Documents are signed by the famous Clemens-Heinrich Graf von Kageneck, RK 4 August 1943 and OL 26 June 1944 (513.) (on PAB Doc. I) and Nordewin von Diest-Koerber (on PAB Doc. II). The IC-Document is signed by General Ulrich Kleemann, RK 13. Oktober 1941 and OL 16. September 1943 (304.). Please note, that the PAB II-Doc was awarded on 9.1.1945 when the s.Pz.Abt. 503 already was transfered in the Panzerabteilung Feldhernhalle.