12th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
The 12th Panzer Division was an armoured division in the German Army, established in 1940.
A Panzer IV of the division operating on the Eastern Front in 1944.
The Courland Pocket was an area of the Courland Peninsula where Army Group North of Nazi Germany and the Reichskommissariat Ostland were cut off and surrounded by the Red Army for almost a year, lasting from July 1944 until 10 May 1945.
Stamp used in Courland pocket (1945)
Evacuation at Ventspils (Windau), 19 October 1944