it's an honour for a fact Za to meet with the few living and been through it.

Otto still has problems with some slight deafness most to Soviet artillery during his time in the Baltic, am still trying to find how he got from being a gunner on a 8.8cm Flak at Kiel to radar schule in Danzig to a marine-land abteilung and to Finland and the Baltic-Danzig and Hela Bay. during his time on land a person could just call them regular soldiers like the Heer landser as they were performing the same function if I recall this correctly though he may have stayed with a KM Flak unit while in service, I need to touch base with him again to confirm. They must have been given a radio dispatch early on to co-ordinate if need be to the heavy and lighter ships as he recalls calling in fire-support at least 6 different times as the Soviets pushed ever further along the coast line through East-Prussia. Very common to note I have his book in which there are 4 fotos of him in blue and field grey uniform, the last one of him during his wedding ceremony with a EK2 dangling out of his tunic, because of the intense and heavy close-combat at the front he looks at least another 25 years older due to the strain