Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillone
| *All dates below listed as date/month/year Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 50. Formed 2.45 with 4 companies. Saw combat on the Eastern front (LuftgauIII). Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 55. Formed 2.45 in Luftgau III, with one battery (1.) and two companies(2. and 3.). Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 56. Formed 2.45 with 5 companies. Saw action at Greifenhagen and Stettin.17.3.45 redesignated Fallschirm-Feldersatz-Bataillon9 with 4 companies at Küstrin. Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 57. Formed 2.45. Saw action in Sachsen, attached to Fallschirm-Panzer-Division1 Hermann Göring. The approximately 100 survivors from the von der Heydte Battalion were regrouped in early 1945 as cadre for an independent Battalion. The Battalion was reinforced with non-Fallschirmjaeger personnel and assigned to the Grossdeutschland Panzerkorps. It suffered heavy losses in lower Silesia and was posted to the Hermann Goering FallschirmPanzer-Korps. After fighting in the Dresden area, survivors of the Panzer-Korps surrendered to the Russians in May, 1945. Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 62. See Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 62. Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 63. See Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 63. Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 67. Formed 15.3.45 in Breslau with 4 companies, from II./FJR.25.Destroyed there. Fallschirm-Jäger-Bataillon 68. Formed 15.3.45 in Breslau with 4 companies, from III./FJR.26.Destroyed there. |