3rd Air Force Field Division

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The 3rd Air Force Field Division was a military association of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was erected in September 1942 from excess Luftwaffe personnel on the Groß Born military training area in Pomerania and was used in the Association of the II Air Force Field Corps (General Schlemm ) on the Eastern Front in the area north of Vitebsk from November 1942 to October 1943 . After they northwest of during the fighting Welisch on Uswjattskoje Lake and in the Soviet Newel operation had been almost completely wiped out, that was Division finally dissolved on 1 November 1943rd

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 .