Operation Husky order of battle is a listing of the significant military and air force units that were involved in the campaign for Sicily, July 10 – August 17, 1943.
Waiting to load Tanks in La Pècherie French base in French Tunisia.
American and British troops landing near Gela, Sicily, July 10, 1943.
Principle Sicilian targets of the Northwest African Air Forces for Operation Husky.
An Albemarle towing a Horsa glider.
The Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 1. Hermann Göring was a German elite Luftwaffe armoured division. The HG saw action in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy and on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Operation Husky order of battle
…Battalion 923rd Fortress Battalion 926th Fortress Battalion 4th Battery/ I Battalion/ 71st Werfer Regiment (15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 and 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42) Panzer Division "Hermann Göring" - Generalleutnant Paul Conrath (attached to XVI Italian Army Corps until the activation of XIV Panzer Corps on 18 July) Panzer Regiment "Hermann Göring…
Hermann Göring, the unit's namesake
The counterattack of Italian and German forces on the Gela beachhead on 11 July 1943.
Major Walter Gericke, commander of the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 11 (Fsch.Jäg.Rgt. 11, part of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division), with his paratroopers in an Italian village with captured Italian armour in the background, 11 September 1943. Gericke commanded a company in the Fallschirmschützen-Bataillon of the Regiment "General Göring".
The works of art packed in wooden boxes are loaded onto a truck.