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- North Africa and Tunisia
- In June1942 i and ii battalions of FJR 3 and FJR 5 transferred to the Airborne Ramcke Brigade. The Ramcke brigade was formed for the invasion of Malta but events over took the planning for the attack.
- In July they arrived in North Africa and in August sent to the El Alamien front next to the Italian “Bologna” Division.
- The 8th Army launched their attack at El Alamein by the 2nd November FJR3 were ordered to withdraw, surrounded by the 8th Army they managed to break out by capturing an allied convey, using the captured vehicles returned to German lines, General Rommel had thought that they had been lost, over 600 Paratroopers returned to the Afrika Korps. Falling back to Tunisia eventually the Ramcke brigade returned to France to form the 5th Fallschirmjager Division, the corps of the FJR3 formed FJR6.
- In October 1942 the i and iii battalions of FJR5 received orders that they where to be transferred to the “Herman Goring” Division being formed in the south of France, but before the official transfer took place the allies launched operation “Torch” and landed in Vichy French North Africa.
- FJR5 where flown into Tunisia in the November and stopped the first Allied attempt to take Tunisia.
- In February 1943 FJR5 where officially transferred to the HG Division, who had also started landing in Tunisia with the i and ii Panzer grenadiers battalions of the 1st Panzergrenadier Regiment HG and 1 battalion of Panzer Division HG and Various artillery and Flack Units, under the banner of
- “ Kampgruppe Schmid”. FJR5 where re titled 5th Jager Regiment HG, all fought with the élan of being elite units and finally forced to surrender on the 12th May 1943, some 1,500 troops of the HG managed to return to Axis controlled areas, some escaping after the capitulation of the Afrika Korps in small boats.
- With the Surrender of all Forces in Tunisia the corp troops of the HG who had been in from the very beginning went into the allied POW camps, they where greatly missed by all.
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