469th Halftrack, Support & Gravedigging Battalion

This is the rather quixotic, strange gaggle of folks who make up this fictional Afrika Korps battalion. The list is by no means complete… changes will be made as I get my hands on issues of “Desert Peach” that I haven't read yet! :-)

  • Oberst Manfred Pfirsich Marie Rommel, comdg.
  • Major Alemar Rauschling, XO
  • Hauptmann Giloit (issue #7, “Spoiled Fruit,” one of the 3 officers for whom Major Rauschling shouts)
  • Lt. Kjars Dagobert Winzig
  • Lt. Thomi Jungfrau (Owner of the teddy bear… #19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Lt. Hecht (#15 “Triangle Trade”, wheeler-dealer assigned to Feldbischof Stange; also appears in #16, “Plight of the Phoenix”)
  • Lt. Zachs (#7, “Spoiled Fruit,” and #19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Lt. Heiner Horowitz (#15, “Triangle Trade”, and #22, “Lady Luck”—Zilli's “problem”)
  • Oberleutnant Melvin “Rosen” Kavalier, hotshot Stuka pilot and Pfirsich's lover
  • Captain Jeff Holz, USA—official camp POW (KG--kriegsgefangener)
  • Semyon Bryonovitch Givsonov, Cossack Liason (#4, “Is There a Nazi in the House?” and #6, “A Day Like Any Other”)
  • Lt. Matheson, a British soldier & spy hiding out now at the 469th's camp: #10, “Two Timers”)
  • Feldbischof Wipprecht Stange, Chaplain
  • Hauptmann Zeichner von Drachenberg, Pfirsich's pilot
  • Oberstabsarzt (Surgeon Major) Doktor Viktor Eddsel (first appears in #6, “A Day Like Any Other”)
  • Korpsman Rabe (#7, “Spoiled Fruit”; referred to in other places)
  • Gefreiter Friedrich Krüger (cook, called Franz by Pfirsich in #6, “A Day Like Any Other” and by Winzig in #10, “Two Timers”. Called Friedrich in #22, “Lady Luck”)
  • Hauptfeldwebel Dünne (Sgt. Major) (the one ordered to oversee the “1 metre to the left” shift in #19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Feldwebel Mögen, supply staff sgt. and horse trainer, #16, “Plight of the Phoenix” and #19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Feldwebel Dichter (motorpool chief?) (#4, “IsThere a Nazi in the House?” and #13, “Nobody”)
  • Gefreiter Udo Schmidt, Pfirsich's orderly
  • Gefreiter Heinrich Dobermann, munitions “expert”
  • Gefreiter (?) Arnold _______, the one with Indian blood, who wears feathers.
  • OberSchütze Kristof Falbe, radioman
  • OberSchütze _______ Friede (#4, “Is There a Nazi in the House?”)
  • OberSchütze _______ St ückler , camp clerk (#19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Schütze ______ Alexander (the one in the kilt)
  • Schütze ______ Bastler (working on the bridge in #19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Schütze ______ Hahnentritt (working on the bridge in #19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Schütze Walther _______ , the one with the Aussie hat
  • Schütze Abdhul ________, formerly of the French Colonial Army
  • Schütze ______ Maultier, the tale-telling creep in #17, “Culture Shock” also in #19, “Self-Propelled Target”)
  • Schütze Cäcilie Glück (Zilli), Nachrichten Helferin (female radio asst.) (#22, “Lady Luck”)
  • Schütze Werner Gespunt (pissed off at Zilli…) (#22, “Lady Luck”)

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