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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 was active during World War II. Its formation began in October 1943 in France near Reims. From February 1944 near Brest. In March 1944 division was reinforced by soldiers from the 3rd ...
The 2nd Parachute Regiment, an Assault Regiment Battalion, and Antitank and Machine Gun Battalions were sent to conduct operations in Ukraine. [35] They would be assigned to Army Group South . This force would be known as Kampfgruppe Sturm commanded by Oberst Alfred Sturm . [ 35 ]
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grades were based on four separate enactments.The first enactment, Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 1573 of 1 September 1939 instituted the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz), the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes).
German Cross in Gold on 9 March 1942 as Hauptmann in the I./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3 [10] Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Knight's Cross on 9 July 1941 as Hauptmann and commander of the I./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3 [11] [12] Oak Leaves on 30 September 1944 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 [11 ...
The FJ-Regt 5 was set up in May 1942 on the training area of Groß-Born with 3 battalions, with the staff and the 1st battalion newly formed, the 2nd and 3rd battalions formed by the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Luftlande-Sturm-Regiment 1 (also called Sturm-Regiment Koch); coming back from the Eastern Front and being augmented by replacements.
The 16th Regiment was temporarily added later in the war, but was then transferred to the Eastern Front before the division saw combat, and would later be re-designated as 3rd Fallschirm-Grenadier-Regiment and assigned to Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier Division 2 Hermann Göring. The remainder of the division was sent into combat in Normandy in ...
Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 8, Oberstleutnant Ernst Liebach Bataillon I; Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 9, Oberst Hellmut Hoffmann Bataillon I; Fallschirm-Artillerie-Regiment 3 Bataillon I; Bataillon II; Bataillon III; 3rd Fallschirmjäger Aufklärungs Battalion; Abteilung Isphording; Fallschirm-Flak-Abteilung 3; Fallschirm-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 3
Walter Koch joined the Landespolizei as an officer on 3 April 1929. As a Leutnant he had served in the state police and a police battalion for special purposes ( Polizeiabteilung z.b.V. Wecke ). In 1935 the new commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe , Hermann Göring , transferred this police unit into the reformed Luftwaffe and renamed it the ...