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The 3rd Parachute Division (German: 3. Fallschirmjäger-Division) was a military 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 Battalion of the 1st Parachute Regiment. [1]
A paratroop crew firing a mortar Burning German Junkers Ju 52s at Ypenburg, Netherlands, in 1940 Fallschirmjäger landing on Crete in 1941 German paratroopers prepare to be flown to the Greek island of Leros in 1943 Fallschirmjäger paratroopers at Kondomari, Crete, confronting Cretan Greek villagers Mass murder of Cretan Greek male civilians in Kondomari, Crete by Fallschirmjäger ...
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 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).
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 ...
0–9. 1st Parachute Division (Germany) 2nd Parachute Division (Germany) 3rd Parachute Division (Germany) 4th Parachute Division (Germany) 5th Parachute Division (Germany)
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.
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