Air mobile armour
German XI Flieger Corps (Student)
7th Flieger Division (Süssmann)
22nd Luftlande-Infanterie Division (Generalmajor Heinrich Kreipe)
Pictures of guns: http://www.tarrif.net/cgi/production/all_artillery_adv.php
- You know how it is...Shortly after the surrender of Rotterdam, General Student became wounded by friendly fire, being accidentally shot in the head by soldiers of Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. While he recovered, the command of the division was temporarily assumed by General Putzier.
At the start of 1941, the OKW decided to create the German XI Air Corps, which would include the 7th Flieger Division. This Corps would be under the command of General Student, and General Süssmann would become the new commander of the 7th Flieger Division.
German XI Flieger Corps (Student)
7th Flieger Division (Süssmann)
1st Fallschirm Panzer Division (Oberst Paul Conrath)1st Fallschirmjäger Assault battalion (4 companies) in Kübelwagens(Type 82/3) fitted with machine gun turret and tow hitch for 37 PAK (37mm L/48) gun
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Fallschirmjäger Aufklärungs Abteilung (Recce Motorcycle Battalion)
1st battalion 1st Fallschirmjäger regiment (light motorised)
2nd battalion 1st Fallschirmjäger regiment (light motorised)
1st battalion 2nd Fallschirmjäger regiment (light motorised)
2nd battalion 2nd Fallschirmjäger regiment (light motorised)
1st battalion 3rd Fallschirmjäger regiment (light motorised)
2nd battalion 3rd Fallschirmjäger regiment (light motorised)
1st Fallschirmjäger Artillery regiment (light motorised) truck towed 75mm le. IG 18 L / 11.2 gun and 210mm Nebelwerfer 42 (available march 1942)
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FlaK-Regiment 8.8 cm FlaK 37 (mot)
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Pionier-Battalion 1 (pioneer/engineer battalion)
Nachrichten-Abteilung 1 (signals battalion)
Sanitäts-Abteilung 1 (medical battalion)
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- Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 turret-less panzer 2 APCs
- Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2 turret-less panzer 2 APCs
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Regiment The panzer 38(t) can fit two to a Gigant glider
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 1 The panzer 1 can fit four to a Gigant as a two machine gun scout tank
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Füsilier-Bataillon 1
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 1 StuG 3
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 1 Armoured Engineers tend to use turret-less panzer 2 as tracked stores carriers and APC
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Nachrichten-Abteilung 1
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Feldersatz-Bataillon 1
22nd Luftlande-Infanterie Division (Generalmajor Heinrich Kreipe)
A second Fallschirmjäger Division is planned for 1943 (probably from veterans of the 22nd), although if this assault succeeds then it's role will be largely deterrent.
- Divisionstab
- 47.Infanterie-Regiment
- 16.Infanterie-Regiment
- 65.Infanterie-Regiment
- 22.Artillerie-Regiment
- 22.Panzerabwehr-Abteilung (tank destroyer battalion)
- 22.Aufklärungs-Abteilung (Recce batallion)
- 22.Feldersatz-Battalion
- 22.Nachrichten-Battalion
- 22.Pionier-Battalion
Pictures of guns: http://www.tarrif.net/cgi/production/all_artillery_adv.php
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