2nd Air Force Field Division

The 2nd Air Force Field Division was a military association of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The division was set up in September 1942 from excess Luftwaffe personnel on the Groß Born training area in Pomerania and was deployed on the Eastern Front from November 1942 to October 1943 . After being almost completely wiped out in the area of ​​the II. Luftwaffenfeld Corps during the defensive battles of the 3rd Panzer Army in the Newel area , the division was finally disbanded on October 15, 1943.

Well-known members of the division

• Josef Zander (1918–2007) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician

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 .