*

Recent Topics

Author Topic: Help needed on 1st fallschirmjager div actions in 1945  (Read 1168 times)

Offline Emporium

  • Bookworm
  • Posts: 99
Help needed on 1st fallschirmjager div actions in 1945
« on: 27 January 2021, 11:52:36 AM »
Hi all,
 i need help from the forum hivemind. At my local club (Gruppo Ludico Aglianese italy) we are planning a late war scenario, portraying the fighting at Case Grizzano (a small center near Bologna) on 19.4.45. It was a minor but bloody action that saw the italian paratropers of the Folgore combat group fighting agaist their ex comrades of the 1st fallschirmjager division.
We have gathered some documentation (wikipedia, ospreys, some italian pubblications) but we have discovered that the informations about the fighting are scarce, as thoose about the italian paratropers/german fallschirjagers at that time.
So, i ask if you have any informations about the italian folgore division/1st fallschirmjager div on april 1945 (oob, uniform, equipments, accounts exc). In particular i wonder if anyone could have the second volume of the History of the 1st fallschirmjager division published by Schiffer on 2007, since it should mention the Case Grizzano fighting and could be extremely interesting to read about the german perspective on it.
Thanx for your attention.

Offline Goliad

  • Librarian
  • Posts: 180
Re: Help needed on 1st fallschirmjager div actions in 1945
« Reply #1 on: 27 January 2021, 05:30:10 PM »
Hello. Not sure if you can glean any information from this document

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a611562.pdf "INSTILLING COMBAT EFFECTIVENESS DURING THE ITALIAN
CAMPAIGN (1943-1945): THE ALLIED EXPERIENCE WITH
FOLGORE AND FRIULI COMBAT GROUPS"

but a quick look shows it has references that might be more detailed at least for the Folgore. For example

Folgore Combat Group, War Diary, “Sintesi attività dal 24-9-1944 al 28-2-
1945,” March-May 1945, Italian Army Staff Historic Office, Rome, Italy

Offline Emporium

  • Bookworm
  • Posts: 99
Re: Help needed on 1st fallschirmjager div actions in 1945
« Reply #2 on: 28 January 2021, 10:54:37 AM »
Hi Goliad,
thanks a lot for the document, it's very interesting and has good references.
Cheers

Offline Hang Tuah

  • Scientist
  • Posts: 228
Re: Help needed on 1st fallschirmjager div actions in 1945
« Reply #3 on: 29 January 2021, 09:35:09 AM »
Excellent find, Goliad. I had no idea the Duce visited the north African front.

 

Related Topics

  Subject / Started by Replies Last post
2 Replies
3368 Views
Last post 05 March 2008, 10:11:28 PM
by Lowtardog
8 Replies
6362 Views
Last post 25 May 2010, 10:13:56 AM
by Mark Plant
24 Replies
12049 Views
Last post 21 January 2013, 08:46:10 PM
by David
37 Replies
10251 Views
Last post 18 March 2015, 02:21:52 PM
by Thunderchicken
10 Replies
2851 Views
Last post 03 March 2017, 03:56:36 PM
by Ballardian