What would the Germans do with the 7th Flieger Division if available for Russia?

Assume the 7th Flieger Division isnt wrecked on Crete for some reason and is available in Russia. Can such a capability do any good? OR would it just used up a bunch of Ju52s that were doing other important things??? (training pilots, supplying forward airfields etc..)

Possible ideas:

41)
a) Perekop Isthumus (drop behind or secure ahead of time)
b) Leningrad front (crossing the Neva or Volkhov)
c) Cutting the Murmansk railway
d) Help close the ring on an encirclement (Smolensk, Byransk)

42)
a) Drop on east side of the Volga at Stalingrad to cut off supplies
b) Air drop on Maikop / Grozny to reduce sabotage
c) Assist in Don crossing so no one thinks they have to divert 4th Panzer from Stalingrad
d) jump from Crimea across Kerch strait
 
all those seem possible, but given the HUGE amount of manpower the eastern front swallowed, a single division is a drop in the ocean, and can't make much difference
 
all those seem possible, but given the HUGE amount of manpower the eastern front swallowed, a single division is a drop in the ocean, and can't make much difference

Yes. It would have to be something where a small amount of elite forces can do a lot (i.e. like Holland, Norway, Belgium). The closer to Germany and the earlier the better because you wouldn't be taxing forward airfields and supply arrangements

Maybe helping Mainstein cross the Dvina in June 41, allowing him to move on instead of waiting.

The other place is the long Murmansk Railway front where the Germans had a hard time just getting people up to the front and supplying them and the troop density is low.
 
To be honest, I think that the transport planes that wouldn't have been lost taking the division to Crete would have been more significant than the divisions itself, assuming they weren't squandered in some half-baked airborne attack in the Soviet Union. The Germans lost something on the order of 250-300 transport planes in the Crete invasion. They would have been useful in getting key small amounts of stuff to the front--spare parts to keep tanks going, etc.
 
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