16th Air Force Field Division

The 16th Air Force Field Division was a military association of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was set up on December 1, 1942 from excess Luftwaffe personnel on the Groß Born military training area in Pomerania and was used in Western Europe ( Netherlands ; France ) from February 1943 to September 1943 . On September 20, 1943, the division was transferred to the army and renamed the 16th Field Division (L).

Well-known members of the division

• Dietmar Eckert (1913–2002), was from 1968 to 1969, as Brigadier General of the Army of the German Armed Forces , a member of the Federal Armed Forces Command Academy

See also

• Air Force Field Division

literature

• Kevin Conley Ruffner: Air Force Field Divisions 1941-1945 , Osprey Publ., Oxford 1990. ISBN 1-85532-100-9 .
• Peter Schmitz / Klaus-Jürgen Thies / Günter Wegmann / Christian Zweng: The German Divisions 1941–1945 , Vol. 3, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996. ISBN 3-7648-2458-1 .