243rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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The 243rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) was a German infantry division during World War II . The division was set up on July 9, 1943 at the Döllersheim military training area in Lower Austria and was later moved to Normandy . Here the division was almost completely destroyed after the Allied landing in France on the Cotentin peninsula in August 1944.

literature

Samuel W. Mitcham (2007a). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (2007b). Panzer Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders. Mechanicsburg, PA, United States: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3353-3 .

Web links

200th through 370th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939–1945 ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 461 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.