352nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 352nd Infantry Division ( ID 352 ) was a major unit of the Wehrmacht. She came to France in 1944 in defense of the Allied invasion ( Operation Neptune ) are used.

History

The 352nd Infantry Division was the end of February 1944 in Le Desert / France established from surviving personnel of the shattered on the Eastern Front 321 Infantry Division. She was one of eight infantry divisions of the 21 -up shaft. On 1 June 1944, it consisted of 12,734 soldiers, NCOs and officers.

In the Allied landings on 6 June 1944 in Normandy, she defended the beach at the Allied landing section Omaha Beach. The commander of the artillery regiment 352 Major Werner Pluskat to have discovered the first German officer at all this morning, the Allied landing ships. His regiment verfeuerte all available ammunition. During the landing of U.S. troops the landings U.S. troops Grenadier Regiment 916 Division inflicted heavy losses. A certain notoriety gained Heinrich Severloh, who was employed as a machine gunner in the resistance nest 62, which could not be turned off for hours from the landing troops.

During the fighting in France in June and July, about 9,000 men, the division lost, according to estimates of the military historian Niklas Zetterling by death, injury and imprisonment. End of July 1944, the division was dissolved. The surviving troops went on in the 352nd Volks- Grenadier Division.

Structure

  • Grenadier - Regiment 914
  • Grenadier - Regiment 915
  • Grenadier - Regiment 916
  • Artillery Regiment 352
  • Divisions Fusilier Battalion 352
  • Engineer Battalion 352
  • Panzer - Jäger- Division 352
  • Field - Ersatz-Abteilung 352
  • Division News Division 352
  • Division supply officer 352
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