PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Bastian, Helmut (KM-Tboot)
Date of birth: November 17th, 1916 (Kiel/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Date of death:  March 7th, 1996 (Bremen, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Rank: Leutnant zur See (Lieutenant-Junior)
Awarded on: November 6th, 1939
 
     
ZERSTÖRER-KRIEGSABZEICHEN
Rank: Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant-Senior)
Awarded on: November 10th, 1940
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Rank: Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenan Commander)
Unit: Kommandant Torpedoboot "Möwe" / 5.Torpedobootsflotille
Awarded on: September 6th, 1943
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant)
Unit: Kommandant Torpedoboot "Möwe" / 5.Torpedobootsflotille
Awarded on: June 9th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant)
Unit: Chef Kleinkampfflotille 211
Awarded on: November 3rd, 1944
Details: According to Fellgiebel received as Führer Sprengbootflotille (Kleinkampfverband).
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher collection
Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Blocksdorf H., Das Kommando der Kleinkampfverbände der Kriegsmarine, Motorbuch Verlag, 2003.
- 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
- www.das-ritterkreuz.de
- deutsche-marinesoldaten.de
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