1. according to Wikipedia Duisburg was attacked by airplanes 299 times during the war, after 1943 nearby daily. Duisburg was the most important inland waterway port.
2. letter was 12 pfg.
3. hard to read, can you make a photo only of the advertising.
4. The signature say: "beantwortet", meaning answered. This was for sure add later by the recipent.
3. On the Freistempel you can read: Lohengrin-Werke Bösken-Meiwes-Esch. This company was a large coffee-roasting-factory and a food wholesale. The owners and partners had the names: Bösken, Meiwes and Esch. Another partner was Anton Fey, from this man you can read something in Wikipedia:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Fey
The company is called Lohengrin after an opera from Richard Wagner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohengrin_(opera)
Gruß kartenhai
The text in English is:
On November 6th, 1944 at 14:25 during acute air danger was born in the presence of our entire follow-up our 9 pound heavy trunk holder in a section of our company bunker. He should be called Werner Friedrich Hermann.
In greatful joy, Ruth Bösken born Berghoff, Herbert Bösken
by bomb damage now resident Duisburg, General-Wever-Str. 90
answered
Gruß kartenhai
You got the gist of the message. I would replace a few words in the translation:
Replace “follow up” by followership, referring to the employees of the company
Replace “trunk holder” by first-born son
Replace greatful by grateful
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane_(1944
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftangri…_das_Ruhrgebiet
Here are two Wikipedia-Links. However, when I copy it into the Forum, there seems to be a problem with the first one, because the parenthesis at the end is missing and cannot be inserted. When I go to Wikipedia directly, I get the page. Sorry.
