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    the Fallschirmjäger back to the river of Dniester. The Fallschirmjäger had been decimated by the fighting and by the end of the month the division was...
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    Parachute Division (German: 1. Fallschirmjäger-Division) was an elite German military parachute-landing division that fought during World War II. A division of...
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  • Ausbildungs-und-Ersatz-Division), commanded by Walter Barenthin. It contained the 58th, 59th and 60th Fallschirmjäger Regiments, and the 20th Fallschirmjäger Artillery...
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    The 3rd Parachute Division (German: 3. Fallschirmjäger-Division) was a airborne forces (Fallschirmjäger) division unit of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe that...
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    The 4th Parachute Division, (German: 4. Fallschirmjäger-Division), was a divisional-sized formation in the Luftwaffe during World War II. It was formed...
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    The 2nd Parachute Division (German: 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division) was an airborne division of the German Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht during World War II...
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    World War II. The weapon was developed specifically for the use of the Fallschirmjäger airborne infantry in 1942 and was used in very limited numbers until...
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    defended by the 2nd Fallschirmjäger-Division, 91st Luftlande-Infanterie-Division and elements of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division. Deliberate flooding...
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    Kurt Student (category Fallschirmjäger of World War II)
    a paratrooper force to be known as the Fallschirmjäger, and as the most senior member of the Fallschirmjäger, commanded it throughout the war. Student...
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  • Panzergrenadier Division, a veteran of Stalingrad flown in from mainland Italy, and the 1st Fallschirmjäger Division brought from France. The HG Division then engaged...
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    Koch (10 September 1910 – 23 October 1943) was a commander of the Fallschirmjäger during World War II who died in mysterious circumstances after openly...
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  • reorganized to start a series of nominally airborne divisions. Though named Fallschirmjäger ("paratrooper") divisions, only some of them participated in airdrops...
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  • Wolfgang Erdmann (category Fallschirmjäger of World War II)
    Cross on 8 February 1945 as Generalleutnant and commander of 7. Fallschirmjäger-Division Thomas & Wegmann 1986, p. 53. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 147. Fellgiebel...
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    battalions of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 (6th Parachute Regiment) of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger-Division. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, ordered to...
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    leader of Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon Paul (under control of the 334. Infanterie-Division). According to Scherzer as shooter in the 7./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment...
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  • Wadehn Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 5, Major H. Müller Bataillon I Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 8, Oberstleutnant Ernst Liebach Bataillon I Fallschirmjäger-Regiment...
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    Division and 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, and the American 501st, 502nd, and 506th Parachute Infantry Regiments (PIR) of the 101st Airborne Division...
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    preserve the available armor, the infantry of the 9th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, 3rd Fallschirmjäger Division, had been ordered to lead the attack through Lanzerath...
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  • Regiment "Nembo" fought a heavy battle against the Fallschirmjäger of the German 1. Fallschirmjäger-Division at Case Grizzano. The paratroopers of the Nembo...
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    Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Hübner. The clearing of the Roer Triangle was planned along three axes. The left axis, formed by the 7th Armoured Division,...
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    assault guns of the division's Panzer battalion and Oberst (colonel) Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte's 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, attacked...
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    500th SS Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon and supported by the Brandenburg Regiment. In this timespan many other ethnic groups joined the division, such as ethnic...
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    from the 1st Fallschirmjäger Division, and consisted of the 1st Fallschirmjäger Engineer Battalion, the 1st Battalion, 4th Fallschirmjäger Regiment and...
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    Armored Cavalry Division "Ariete", the Carabinieri Legion "Rome", and other minor units the Sassari fought the German 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division for two days...
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    with the Fallschirmjäger of Generaloberst Kurt Student's airborne forces, the 7. Flieger-Division and the 22. Luftlande-Infanterie-Division. Fall Gelb—the...
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    time to fight in the Battle of Porta Pia against the German 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division. In the late afternoon the Italian units defending Rome were told...
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    Battle of Ortona, fighting against German Fallschirmjäger–crack air force paratroops of the 1st Parachute Division–over Christmas 1943. Both sides suffered...
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  • an air assault division. The foundation of modern-day air assault operations was laid by the World War Two era German Fallschirmjäger, Brandenburgers...
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  • extensive dispersal of the drop, Fallschirmjäger were reported all over the Ardennes, and the Allies believed a major division-sized jump had taken place,...
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    landing of the British 1st Airborne Division at Taranto on 9 September from attacks of the German 1st Fallschirmjäger Division. After the Germans had retreated...
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