PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Coracino, Klaus
Date of birth: March 8th, 1910 (Walheim, Germany)
Date of death:  July 12th, 1994 (Eschweiler, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: August 5th, 1941
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: December 25th, 1941
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: I. / Grenadier-Regiment 454
Awarded on: May 26th, 1943
 
     
EHRENBLATTSPANGE DES HEERES UND WAFFEN-SS
Rank: Oberleutnant der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Chef 2. / Grenadier-Regiment 454
Awarded on: February 27th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberleutnant der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Chef Sturmgeschütz-Begleitkompanie I. / Grenadier-Regiment 431 / 131.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on: September 2nd, 1944
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN BRONZE
 
     
MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)
 
     
PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Bender R.J., Breyette T., Tank Killers, RJ Bender Publications, 2000, ISBN 0-912138-83-1
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Ehrenblatt des Deutschen Heeres, 27.Februar 1944
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