Dec 28, 2022
The battle of Castle Itter was fought
on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village
of Itter in
the North
Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of
the European
Theater of World War II. Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion
of the 12th
Armored Division of the US XXI
Corps led by Captain John
C. "Jack" Lee, Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers
led by Major Josef "Sepp" Gangl,
SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried
Schrader, and recently freed French prisoners of
war defended Castle
Itter against an attacking force from the 17th
SS Panzergrenadier Division until relief from the
American 142nd
Infantry Regiment of the 36th
Division of XXI Corps arrived.
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