Original German WWII ID dogtag - 9./A.R.389 (389. I.D.) (Battle of Stalingrad)

Description

This dogtag was found in
Stalingrad
.
9./A.R.389 stands for 9. Batterie / Artillerie-Regiment 389 (9th Battery of the 389th Artillery Regiment).
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/ArtReg/AR389-R.htm
This unit was a part of the
389. Infanterie-Division
(
389th Infantry Division
).
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Infanteriedivisionen/389ID-R.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/389th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)
389th Infantry Division
was established on January 27, 1942 as the "Rheingold" division of the at the
Truppenübungsplatz Milowitz
near
Prague
. It was designed as a "
Sturm- und Stoß
" division (storm and impulse division), whose soldiers had to run through a hard training and a long conscription to fight on the foremost part of the front. The soldiers were mostly veterans of the previous campaigns on the Western Front and the Invasion of Poland. From May 1942 onwards, it was employed in battles on the Eastern Front as a part of the
6th Army
under the command of
General der Panzertruppe
Friedrich Paulus
. The division participated in the
Battle of Kharkov
and
Battle of Caucasus
, and finally at the
Battle of Stalingrad
, where it was destroyed in January / February, 1943.
Insignia of the 389th Infantry Division (Source: Wikipedia)