Career
Bauer was a tank crewman/commander who participated in numerous significant tank battles during World World War World War II Tank Leutnant Bauer was not related to infantry Feldwebel Ludwig Bauer, who also was awarded a Knight"s Cross. Bauer was featured in the television series Greatest Tank Battles season 2, Episode 7. Wounded in that battle, Bauer returned to his unit for the German offensive in the Caucasus.
When the 9th Panzer Division was transferred to the Western Front, Bauer was again in the thick of the action during the Ardennes Offensive, commanding a StuG tank destroyer in the 9th"s drive to help out the stranded 2nd Panzer Division on the east bank of the river Meuse.
Bauer ended the war commanding a Panther tank, his tank was positioned as recon front recon, however when Bauer went to sleep he found himself in a tank, with United States. soldiers on top thinking his Panther was abandoned, after nearly running the soldiers over he returned to the German side after being hit by three bazookas. However he was mistaken for a United States. tank and fired on by one Hetzer, surviving his burning Panther to end his war, the ninth time he"d managed to bail out of a burning tank.
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