GJ Regiments Served WHERE?

[gebirgs soldat]

Herren,

I am familiar with GJ units/divisions serving in Poland 1939, Norway 1940, France 1940, Balkans/Greece 1941, Crete 1941, Leningrad 1941-42, Finland 1942-43, Caucasus/Southern Russia 1942-43, Balkans 1943-44, N.Afrika 1943, Italy 1943-45, and Southern France/West Wall/Vosges/Southwest Germany 1944-45, Austria/Hungary/Czechkloslovakia 1944-45, East Prussia 1945.

Specifically:
1. Did any GJ units serve/fight in Sicily?

2. Did any GJ units serve/fight in Holland/Belgium 1944-45?

3. Did any GJ units serve/fight in Normandy 1944? I heard on this site about a Mtn Artillery Rgt served with the 171st or 71st Infantry.

Any constructive answers will help solve a question with fellow reenactors regarding appropriate locale for GJ in upcoming reenactment/battles.

Thanks, Walt
The Geb Zug - 98th GJR
Reenacting Preservation Society,
California

[mario33]

1. Did any GJ units serve/fight in Sicily?

Not to my knowledge.

2. Did any GJ units serve/fight in Holland/Belgium 1944-45?

Not to my knowledge as far as Heer GJ units are concerned. Dont know about Waffen SS GJ.

3. Did any GJ units serve/fight in Normandy 1944? I heard on this site about a Mtn Artillery Rgt served with the 171st or 71st Infantry.

Gebirgs-Artillerie-Regiment 191, of 91 Luftlande Division. In June 1944 stationed near Carentan/St Mere Eglise area. Destroyed in Cherbourg end of June 1944.

[Franz repper]

2. Did any GJ units serve/fight in Holland/Belgium 1944-45?

Not to my knowledge as far as Heer GJ units are concerned. Dont know about Waffen SS GJ.

Good sirs SS Nord served in France in 1945 in the Nordwind campain then there was the 24th Waffen Gebrigs Division (on paper) Karstjäger who serverd in northern Italy and the Dolomites fighting partisans those are the only two SS units that fought in Europe

[Crazy Feldgendarme]

Politzei Gebirgsjager Regiment 18 served in Austria the Balkans and North Italy plus there were small GJ Police units in Norway.