Helmut Magelsdorff
Notities
- Tussen Belfeld en Reuver (sector Kessel - Hout - Baarlo) opereerde het met artillerie en pioniers versterkte IR.6. Het diende aldaar een oversteek te forceren, maar zou daarin niet slagen. De oversteekpogingen werden gesmoord. De Duitsers staken de Maas pas rond 1100 uur over ter plaatse. Er sneuvelden enkele Duitse militairen tijdens de oversteekpogingen.
- Gefreiter Magelsdorff sneuvelde vermoedelijk na de oversteek even ten noorden van Kessel.
- Between Belfeld and Reuver (sector Kessel - Hout -Baarlo west of the Maas) operated IR.6 that was reinforced with a battalion of artillery and pioneers. It was under orders to enforce a Maas crossing, possibly by making use of the existing ferry. Its first weak attempts to cross were repelled by the defence, but after serious arty bombardments and direct fire on the light casemates the crossing was enforced around 1100 hrs. The losses were very mild.
- Gefreiter Magelsdorff was KIA near Kessel, probably shortly after or during the crossing of the Maas.
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