19th Air Force Field Division

The 19th Air Force Field Division was a military association of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War . It was erected on March 1, 1943 from excess Luftwaffe personnel at the Bergen military training area in Lower Saxony and was used in France and the Netherlands from February 1943 to April 1944 . On June 1, 1944, the division was renamed the 19th Luftwaffen-Sturm-Division and moved to Central Italy . Here the unit was almost completely wiped out a month later, in July 1944, and disbanded on August 15, 1944.

Well-known members of the division

• Charles Michel (1904-1945), was a peripheral figure in the preparation of the assassination on 20 July 1944 involved

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 .