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Armor and ground forces of the Axis forces during World War II.
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Fallschirmjager at Normandy
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Posted: Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 03:23 PM UTC
I've been studying the actions of the Fallschirmjager divisions at Normandy - there is one thing which puzzles me. The organisational chart for 5th Fallschirm. mentions a panzer-jager abteilung. I assume this refers to Marders, but nowhere in their history does it mention the use of SP's at Normandy. As a matter of fact, one of their regiments was attached to Panzer Lehr. I was under the impression that Fallshirm. divisions were equipped with SP AT's and/or StuG's. Was their armor all on the Eastern Front at this time? Although there was a vague reference to SP 105's, Wespes. Besides some towed 50mm and 75mm AT and light infantry AT weapons they seemed to have nothing else. Does anyone have more detailed info on this?
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