SS192 - Radio Operator Papau New Guinea Winter campaigns placed enormous strain

Winter campaigns placed enormous strain on troops

5th Division

Scale: 54mm / 1:30

the flagbearer—or color bearer—held a dangerous and prestigious role:

Radio operators maintained constant contact between advancing units

SS192 - Radio Operator Papau New Guinea Winter campaigns placed enormous strainThe 6th SS Mountain Division was formed in February 1941 as the SS Battle Group North (SS Kampfgruppe Nord) in southern Norway before being upgraded and renamed the SS Division Nord in preparation for Operation Barbarossa and holds the unique distinction of being the only German SS unit to have fought in the Artic Circle. Initially the unit had low combat effectiveness, in the second half of 1941 the division was effectively destroyed by the Russians