17th Air Force Field Division

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The 17th Air Force Field Division was a military association of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was erected on December 1, 1942 from excess Luftwaffe personnel and was used in France from February 1943 to September 1943 . On September 20, 1943, the division was transferred to the army and renamed the 17th Field Division (L).

Well-known members of the division

Rudolf Kellermayr (1921–2014) was the director of the Academic Gymnasium in Graz

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 .