118 Light machineguns
36 Heavy machineguns
27 50-mm mortars
18 80-mm mortars
6 75-mm light howitzers (In 1942, three add’l 105-mm mortars)
2 150-mm heavy howitzers
12 37-mm anti-tank guns (In 1941, two 50-mm)
APPENDIX B
REFERENCE OF PLACE NAMES
This book uses the names of population centers and geographic locations as they were known at the time. Following is a list of how are known today.
Historic Name – Contemporary Usage
Dudergof – Mozhaiskii
Düna River – Daugava River
Dünaburg – Daugavpils
Elbing – Elblag
Fischhausen – Primorsk
Frisches Haff – Vistula Isthmus
Frische Nehrung – Vistula Isthmus
Gdingen – Gdynia
Gulf of Danzig – Gulf of Gdansk
Heiligenbeil – Mamonovo
Hela – Hel
Heyderkrug – Silute
Königsburg – Kaliningrad
Krasnogvardeisk—Gatcina
Kurisches Haff – Curonian Bay
Kurische Nehrung – Curonian Isthmus
Labiau – Polessk
Lake Peipus – Lake Chudskoye
Leningrad – St. Petersburg
Libau – Liepaja
Memel – Klaipeda
Oranienbaum – Lomonosov
Pillau – Baltiysk
Reval – Tallinn
Stutthof – Sztutowo
Tilsit – Sovetsk
Weichsel River Estuary – Vistula River Estuary
APPENDIX C
TABLE OF EQUIVALENT RANKS
This is a list of German ranks and the approximate English equivalents as indicated in the book. Please note that this list does not include all ranks and that some of the ranks are translated differently in other sources.
Oberst – colonel
Oberstleutnant – lieutenant colonel
Major – major
Hauptmann – captain
Rittmeister – cavalry captain
Oberleutnant – first lieutenant
Leutnant – second lieutenant
Oberfähnrich – senior officer candidate
Fähnrich – junior officer candidate
Hauptfeldwebel – senior sergeant
Oberfeldwebel – staff sergeant
Feldwebel – sergeant
Unteroffizier – corporal
Obergefreiter – lance corporal
Gefreiter – private first class
Schütze – private
ENDNOTE
The 154th Infantry Regiment, in which I served from 1939 to 1945, suffered total casualties as follows: 300 officers of which 73 were killed; 2,241 non-commissioned officers of which 485 where killed; and 10,810 other enlisted personnel of which 1,824 were killed. Of its total of 13,351 casualties, 2,382 were killed, 10,021 were wounded, and 948 soldiers were listed as missing. Among the divisions in Army Group North, the 58th Infantry Division received the second highest number of decorations.2
REFERENCES
1. Federal Textbook on Citizenship Training (US Government Printing Office, 1931), Lesson 61.
2. Von Zydowitz, Kurt. Die Geschichte der 58. Infanterie-Division 1939–1945 (Podzun: Kiel, 1952).
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