22. Infanterie-Division
22. Infanterie-Division
What changes were made to this division to make it air transportable? When it fought in the Crimea, where it seems to have done well, did it have a normal infantry division's organisation and equipment?
Re: 22. Infanterie-Division
Hello sitalkes 
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22. Luftlande Division (Air landing Division).
The Luftlande equipment, which was already available for the infantry regiments in the sites, was introduced. The artillery regiment was equipped with Gebirgskanone 15 (World War I of the Skoda Works), and these were made mobile by small horses. All combat organizations were divided into loading units according to the viability of a Ju-52:
16-18 men with light inf. Weapons and ammunition or
1 Geb.-Kan. 15 + small horse + horse guide and rifleman or
1 Muni wagon with 15 shots 7.5 grenades + 5 men or)
1 3,7 cm Pak with crew and ammunition or ) to pull by hand
1 2 cm Fla gun with crew and ammunition )
In addition to this Luftlande deployment and equipment, the equipment of the infantry division remained. In the case of an LL deployment, the items which could not be loaded into airplanes (le.FH 18, field kitchens, baggage, trains, etc.) were combined into so-called ground echelon (to follows the units later on after the landing). This ambivalence made the service considerably more difficult.
Then we found June 1941 The division moves to the area south of Botosani in the E-transport (railway). The LL device is placed into Siebenbürgen for storage. Subordinated to the 11th Army and ready for an attack on the Soviet Union in the area Suceava-Botosani-Harlau.
So the division crossed the border line with normal equipment for an infantry division.
Source: Die Geschichte der 22 Infanterie_Division 1939-1945. Friedrich-August v. Metzsch.
Cheers. Raúl M
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; a little to start...........................................22. Luftlande Division (Air landing Division).
The Luftlande equipment, which was already available for the infantry regiments in the sites, was introduced. The artillery regiment was equipped with Gebirgskanone 15 (World War I of the Skoda Works), and these were made mobile by small horses. All combat organizations were divided into loading units according to the viability of a Ju-52:
16-18 men with light inf. Weapons and ammunition or
1 Geb.-Kan. 15 + small horse + horse guide and rifleman or
1 Muni wagon with 15 shots 7.5 grenades + 5 men or)
1 3,7 cm Pak with crew and ammunition or ) to pull by hand
1 2 cm Fla gun with crew and ammunition )
In addition to this Luftlande deployment and equipment, the equipment of the infantry division remained. In the case of an LL deployment, the items which could not be loaded into airplanes (le.FH 18, field kitchens, baggage, trains, etc.) were combined into so-called ground echelon (to follows the units later on after the landing). This ambivalence made the service considerably more difficult.
Then we found June 1941 The division moves to the area south of Botosani in the E-transport (railway). The LL device is placed into Siebenbürgen for storage. Subordinated to the 11th Army and ready for an attack on the Soviet Union in the area Suceava-Botosani-Harlau.
So the division crossed the border line with normal equipment for an infantry division.
Source: Die Geschichte der 22 Infanterie_Division 1939-1945. Friedrich-August v. Metzsch.
Cheers. Raúl M
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