Here are some pictures.
Drvar:

Tito’s cave:





Partisan monument is devastated.


Sobica Cemetery


Same wall as on drvar3 picture few posts above.



Dear Rob (and everyone else),Rob - wssob2 wrote:June 1944: June 1: unit strength: 300; sent to Petrovac, then Ljubljana for rest & refitting.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/fall500.htmlAt this time the composition of the 1000 man SS-Parachute battalion was:
Btl.Stab.Komp (267 men):
1x -Nachrichtenzug
1x -Aufklärungs mannschaft
1x -Kradmelder abteilung
1x -Fallschirm-wartenzug
1.Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie
3 Züge & Nachrichten mannschaft
each of 3x Schützen mannschaften, and
1x Mörser mannschaft
2.Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie as 1.Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie
3.Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie as 1.Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie
4.Fallschirm-(schwer-waffen)-Kompanie
1x MG (h.) zug (MG.42)
1x Flammenwerfer-zug (3 x flamethrowers)
1x Mörserzug (12cm.)
1x Panzerjägerzug (anti-tank) = 4 x LG 40/75 (recoiless para/mtn.gun)
Mobility inlcuded 100 Kraftwagen & 30 Kradfahr
source: http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/SS-Fallsch ... on_500/600Stabs-Kompanie (267)
-Nachrichtenzug
-Feindaufklärungsmannschaft
-Kradmelderabteilung
-Fallschirm-Wartungszug
-SS-Juristen zuständig für die Überwachung der Disziplinarfälle
1. Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie
2. Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie
3. Fallschirm-Schützen-Kompanie
4. Fallschirm-(schwere Waffen)-Kompanie
Feldausbildungs-Kompanie
100 Kraftwagen und 30 Kradfahrzeuge standen dem weitgehend autarken Bataillon zur Verfügung.
source: /viewtopic.php?t=73324-Battalion Staff Company
One supply company
One reporting squad
One signals platoon
One motorcycle dispatch squad
One maintenance platoon
One parachute maintenance platoon
-1st Parachute Rifle Company
Three parachute firle platoons, plus a communications squad
-2nd Parachute Rifle Company
Same as 1st
-3rd Parachute Rifle Company
Same as 1st
Note - Each parachute rifle platoon contained three rifle squads, three light submachine-gun squads, and a mortar squad.
-4th Heavy Weapons Parachute Company
One machine-gun platoon
One mortar platoon
One flamethrower platoon
One antitank platoon
Well I can answer part one, and judging by your record on these forums as being one of the most respectable researchers, give you the answer you’d expect.Sid Guttridge wrote: ↑26 Nov 2019 12:10Hi Guys,
It is over a year since I asked the following question, without reply, so I thought I would try again:
"Did the two battalions (500 and 600) conduct any ultimately successful special forces operations against the Allies?#
To what extent did they owe their expertise to the Brandenburgers? I understand that almost all the fluent English speakers used in the Ardennes were former Brandenburgers."
Cheers,
Sid
thank you. very informative. and good point re the 20 lMGs. though the SS companies had two 81mm GrW and 8121(L) had three.Max104740 wrote: ↑25 Nov 2019 14:33More similar is the Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger-Kompanien, KStN 8121(L) of May 44, I have never seen this KStN but I found a copy of a forum post that describes it:
[...]
I cannot find the post on the forum but someone has this KStN and it gives 20 LMG and three mortars for company, like the companies you are interested in. It seems reasonable that when SS built their airborne unit they started from the Luftwaffe organization.
Not exactly in the Balkans They hunted people which included cave work which sometimes included the use of chemical weapons.You wont find evidence of that in your regular research work because of course there was no usage of chemical weapons in ww2 except for an admitted “accident”by the Italians mixing up shells in YugoslaviaAdolfDettmer wrote: ↑28 Nov 2019 02:22Well I can answer part one, and judging by your record on these forums as being one of the most respectable researchers, give you the answer you’d expect.Sid Guttridge wrote: ↑26 Nov 2019 12:10Hi Guys,
It is over a year since I asked the following question, without reply, so I thought I would try again:
"Did the two battalions (500 and 600) conduct any ultimately successful special forces operations against the Allies?#
To what extent did they owe their expertise to the Brandenburgers? I understand that almost all the fluent English speakers used in the Ardennes were former Brandenburgers."
Cheers,
Sid
No, the SS-Fallschirm units did nothing of any real note, and are only glorified and put on a pedestal by wehraboo posters on reddit.
Yes they existed, yes they saw combat, but to echo your remarks I’ve seen many a time Sid, “their experience mirrored many regular units”.