September 19th Journal Entry-Battle of Brest Won

Sept 19-Surv-west of Crozon
Bombed out road and cart-Family killed in home-Graves being dug
Beautiful view of sea-
All resistance over at 1600
General Remke Captured

Battalion History: Last German units on Crozon surrender.

From WWII Gravestones site: https://ww2gravestone.com/people/ramcke-hermann-bernard/

The German defenders in the region fell back on Brest, and Ramcke assumed command of the garrison, now known as Festung Brest. Fortress Brest was largely surrounded and infiltrated by partisan guerrillas who succeeded in killing one of Ramcke’s junior officers in the seat next to him as they drove through an ambush. Commanding about 35,000 German troops Ramcke led the defense of Brest from 11 August until 19 September. Ramcke refused early requests to surrender and followed orders to hold out as long as possible. On the final day of battle, it was only after escaping a strafing attack during a personal reconnoiter of the area, and the entry of American forces into the bunker, that General der Fallschirmtruppe Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke surrendered.

Ramcke and his Irish Setter after surrendering at point des Capucins on the Crozon Peninsula 19-09-1944. Ramcke meets two of his opponents Major General Donald Armpriester Stroh (far right) and Brigadier General Charles Draper William Canham (second from right), the commander and assistant respectively of the 8th Infantry Division nickname “Golden Arrow Division.

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