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Starting in 1981, a company of paratroopers from the Battalion began guarding the headquarters of the East German Defence Ministry in Strausberg. [ 4 ] On 1 December 1986, the unit was expanded to form the Luftsturmregiment 40 (English: 40th Air Assault Regiment ) under the Order No. 96/86 of the Minister for National Defence and Order No. 30/ ...
The Fallschirmjäger also had their first defeat in Norway, when a company was dropped on the village and railroad junction of Dombås on 14 April 1940 and was destroyed by the Norwegian Army in a five-day battle. [17] On 10 May 1940, the Fallschirmjäger performed a successful raid on the powerful fortification known as Ében-Émael. [18]
A Fallschirmjäger firing the early FG 42 in June 1944. After approximately 2,000 FG 42s had been produced by Krieghoff, supplies of the manganese steel from which the receivers were forged were diverted to other needs; this meant a redesign was required to use stamped sheet metal in its place. Field reports that the lightweight rifle was not ...
Kurt Arthur Benno Student (12 May 1890 – 1 July 1978) was a German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II.An early pioneer of airborne forces, Student was in overall command of developing a paratrooper force to be known as the Fallschirmjäger, and as the most senior member of the Fallschirmjäger, commanded it throughout the war.
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Major Walter Gericke, commander of the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 11 (Fsch.Jäg.Rgt. 11, part of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division), with his paratroopers in an Italian village with captured Italian armour in the background, 11 September 1943. Gericke commanded a company in the Fallschirmschützen-Bataillon of the Regiment "General Göring".