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I think we have other threads for those.
3rd Cumulative WW2 History Quiz
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Adler17
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cidknee, your turn. It was indeed Fleet Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku.
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Adler17 said:
Didnt someone from the Spanish Blue Divison also win. The knights cross with leaves and swords ? I believe he fought on as a volunteer even after the division was withdraw. and survived the war and ended up being the bodyguard for Franco.
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Hmm I don´t know since I have my infos by the Feldgrau website myself. Then it can only be the commander of that division, Generalleutnant Augustin Munoz- Grande.
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Which artillery veteran of the first world war was instrumental in the early history of Luftwaffe Field divisions during the second?
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Kesselring? I don't think so - wasn't he transferred to OKW in the mid 30s?
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I'm not sure, but the gentleman I'm looking for commanded combat formations at the front during the time in question rather than Kesselring who AFAIK didn't.
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The gentleman also served in another part of Goering's "empire" during WW2
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Nope, the guy did serve under Student before the formation of the LWD though.
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Milch or Udet?
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Nope, nope.
I'm going to be back in work from tomorrow so it's easier for me to simply give you the answer.
Eugen Meindl began his career as an artilleryman in WW1 and remained in this branch until 1940. The year before he was assigned to the 3rd Mountain division as the commander of it's artillery regiment and took part in the invasion of Poland. In 1940 the 3rd Mountain division was sent to Norway as part of the invasion force and though part of the division landed by sea they were soon surrounded. Meindl volunteered to jump into the Narvik area (without any prior parachute training!) with some paratroopers and due mostly to an allied evacuation of Norway the situation was resolved.
By november 1940 he transferred to serving with Germany's paratroopers, and naturally the Luftwaffe. He was handed command of the air-landing assault regiment of the 7th Flieger Division and lead it into battle on Crete. Unfortunately he was badly wounded early in the battle for Malame airport and stayed out of the war for quite some time.
Later in 1941 the Germans were being pressed back onto the defensive by the Russian counter-attacks. The Soviet 50th Army threatened Yukhnov, a vital logistics base and home of Jagdgeschwader 51. The job of defending the town fell to all kinds of troops including cooks, SS, pilots, mechanics, panzer troops and luftwaffe ground personnel. In January of 1942, the recuperated Meindl was sent to bolster the defences, and bringing with him various elements of 7th Flieger, he formed "Luftwaffe Kampfverband Meindl" by adding these reinforcements to the existing luftwaffe personnel present. This force would grow until it had played a crucial part in securing the base and the area surrounding it.
The drive to find new recruits to replace the severe losses in Russia did not miss the Luftwaffe, and many ground personnel volunteered for service at the front. These were hastily formed into regiments (6 in the first year) and sent to the front. After seeing some action, 4 of the regiments were withdrawn and reformed into the first Luftwaffe Infantry Division in the summer, and Meindl was the man to command it. In september Goering called for more volunteers and Meindl was recalled to Germany in order to oversee their formation which would eventually come to something like 2 dozen divisions. Meindl could therefore be quite concievably be regarded as the founding father of such formations, having had a hand in proving the theory plausible, commanded the first division and overseen the formation of the remainder.
After that role he went to France and commanded II. Fallschirmjager corps before they were all but destroyed in the Falaise pocket. The corps redeployed to the Grosbeek heights region for refitting and was heavily engaged during Market Garden. He surrendered to the western allies and was discharged in 1947, only to die in 1951 aged just 59. He was a highly decorated general and even obtained his parachute badge.
I'm going to be back in work from tomorrow so it's easier for me to simply give you the answer.
Eugen Meindl began his career as an artilleryman in WW1 and remained in this branch until 1940. The year before he was assigned to the 3rd Mountain division as the commander of it's artillery regiment and took part in the invasion of Poland. In 1940 the 3rd Mountain division was sent to Norway as part of the invasion force and though part of the division landed by sea they were soon surrounded. Meindl volunteered to jump into the Narvik area (without any prior parachute training!) with some paratroopers and due mostly to an allied evacuation of Norway the situation was resolved.
By november 1940 he transferred to serving with Germany's paratroopers, and naturally the Luftwaffe. He was handed command of the air-landing assault regiment of the 7th Flieger Division and lead it into battle on Crete. Unfortunately he was badly wounded early in the battle for Malame airport and stayed out of the war for quite some time.
Later in 1941 the Germans were being pressed back onto the defensive by the Russian counter-attacks. The Soviet 50th Army threatened Yukhnov, a vital logistics base and home of Jagdgeschwader 51. The job of defending the town fell to all kinds of troops including cooks, SS, pilots, mechanics, panzer troops and luftwaffe ground personnel. In January of 1942, the recuperated Meindl was sent to bolster the defences, and bringing with him various elements of 7th Flieger, he formed "Luftwaffe Kampfverband Meindl" by adding these reinforcements to the existing luftwaffe personnel present. This force would grow until it had played a crucial part in securing the base and the area surrounding it.
The drive to find new recruits to replace the severe losses in Russia did not miss the Luftwaffe, and many ground personnel volunteered for service at the front. These were hastily formed into regiments (6 in the first year) and sent to the front. After seeing some action, 4 of the regiments were withdrawn and reformed into the first Luftwaffe Infantry Division in the summer, and Meindl was the man to command it. In september Goering called for more volunteers and Meindl was recalled to Germany in order to oversee their formation which would eventually come to something like 2 dozen divisions. Meindl could therefore be quite concievably be regarded as the founding father of such formations, having had a hand in proving the theory plausible, commanded the first division and overseen the formation of the remainder.
After that role he went to France and commanded II. Fallschirmjager corps before they were all but destroyed in the Falaise pocket. The corps redeployed to the Grosbeek heights region for refitting and was heavily engaged during Market Garden. He surrendered to the western allies and was discharged in 1947, only to die in 1951 aged just 59. He was a highly decorated general and even obtained his parachute badge.
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