WW2 ORIGINAL SOVIET SOLDIER'S UNIQUE TRENCH ART SPOON RELIC from KURLAND

Description

Dug out in Kurland
Dug out on positions of 8th Guards Panfilov's Rifle Division, found without soldier. This division managed to stop tanks near Moscow, very famous division, but it was wiped out in the woods near Frauenburg. Great item, will look great in any WW2 collection. Found on the battlefield near Frauenburg (Saldus). Spoon is made in trenches from some scrap aluminium which was melted down. What is especially interesting is that the spoon was molded from wooded spoon. Many soldiers were from countryside and used to use wooded spoons, which they were comfortable to hold with a whole fist and could get a lot of food in them, issue spoons were fancy silverware type spoons, which had to be held
properly
and were smaller, therefore crafty guys from countryside were making their own spoons.
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Like the previous days the major attack on 23 December took place south of Frauenburg where the 4th Assault Army with 119, 360, 357, 378, 145, 239, 306, 164 and 158 Rifle Divisions stormed against the HKL of 18th Army on both sides of Pampali. The frontline defended by 16th Army was attacked by the 10 Guard Army with 56, 65, 53, 85, 30, 29, 119 Rifle divisions and 7 Guard division and the 42 Army with 2, 268, 256 and 48 Rifle Divisions. The German soldiers defended themselves fuious against this numerical much stronger enemy and was able to hold their lines. The 205 Infantrie-Division repulsed the attack of three Rifle Divisions. The 16th Army along with the 18th Army was cut off in the Courland Peninsula when the Soviets launched their summer and autumn offensives of 1944. It stayed trapped there until the end of the war. After the war, 250,000 German troops trapped in the Courland Pocket were marched into captivity, many were never heard from again.
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