13th Luftwaffe Field Division

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The 13th Luftwaffe Field Division (German : 13.Luftwaffen-Feld-Division) was an infantry division of the Luftwaffe branch of the German Wehrmacht that fought in World War II.

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The 13th Luftwaffe Field Division was formed on 15 October 1942 at the Fallingbostel Training Area. In early 1943, the division was transferred to Army Group North on the Eastern Front and assigned to the 18th Army. The division took over a position section on the Volkhov River in the area of Chudovo - Dymno- Spasskaya Polist. Here the division remained in the following months.

On 1 November 1943, the division was taken over by the Wehrmacht and renamed Feld-Division 13. In January 1944, the division was struck by the major Sovet Leningrad–Novgorod offensive. In heavy rearguard action, it had to retreat to the Luga sector and from here further to the Pskow area. After a temporary deployment on the southern edge of Lake Pskov, the division moved to the area south of Ostrov.

At the end of March 1944 the division fought on the Opochka - Pskow railway line, and suffered so many casualties that it was dissolved on 1 April 1944. What remained of the Division was incorporated into the 12th Luftwaffe Field Division.

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