13 Kompanie,
III Battalion,
3^rd Regiment,
1^st Fallschrimjäger Division

Photos

Army

Panzer III N & Panzer VI Tiger IE

Army List

HQ Platoon

2 x Rifle/MG teams Kompanie Comander & 2iC,
3x Panzerknacker SMG teams,
1 x Light Mortar team                                                                160 points

1^st Fallschirmjäger Platoon (2 squads)
7 x Rifle/MG teams                                                                    195 points

3^rd  Fallschirmjäger Platoon (2 squads)
7 x Rifle/MG teams                                                                    195 points

Support Platoons

Fallschirm-Pioneer Platoon (2 Squads)
7 x Rifle/MG teams,
2 x flamethrower                                                                      270 points

Heavy Anti-Aircraft Platoon (HGD)
1 x 8.8cm FlaK38 gun
8 crew,
Sd Kfz (8t) half-track,
Command Rifle/MG team,
Kubelwagen                                                                             180 points

Heavy Tank Platoon (HGD)
1 x Panzer VI Tiger IE
1 x Panzer III N (schürzen)                                                         520 points

TOTAL                                                                                 1,500 points

Fallschrimjäger platoons Fearless Veteran, Army platoons Confident Veteran

History

Carlenini, Sicily mid July 1943

Schitzen!

What a pickle. When there’s a tough job to do, call the Thirteenth.

We’d parachuted onto Catania airfield in Sicily on the 14^th into the teeth of an enemy naval bombardment. Almost as hot a Kreta two years before. No blessed Tommies on the ground to decimate us as we struggled out of our chutes this time though.

Its been constant Jäbo strikes ever since. Now where holed up in some backwater called Carlenini with British on all sides. The perimeter has been steadily shrinking as we take casualties.

The Regiment is still fighting hard and Oberst Heidrich is setting us up for a break out to the north tonight to regain contact with our lines. The lucky old 13^th has got the job of rear guard on the last bridge out of town.

Our resources for this little adventure are top notch but sparse.

The Kompanie HQ platoon is down to 20 men including Hauptman Rudi “Papa” Brandt. He’s a tough old bird and been in the 3/FJR since their inception in 1940. His second is Leutnant Wolfgang Löwe who has leading the dozen men in our Panzerknaker section. These guys cut their teeth on Uncle Joe’s tank hordes and won’t be put off by the iron coffins the Allies drive.

The core of the Kompanie are the 1^st and 3^rd platoons. The heavy fighting of the last few days has seen these fall to less than 30 mean each. They’re tough cookies though, veterans all who have bested much better fellows than those encircling us now.

Attached to blow the bridge is a platoon from Witzig’s Fallschirm-Pioneers. These guys drip with things that go bang!. Their couple of flamethrowers will be handy as well.

We are supported by a couple of detachments from the Herman Göring. Covering the crossing we have an 88 crew from the Heavy FlaK Kompanie.

Hidden in the orchard out of sight of the Kittyhawks is our big surprise. A Tiger and Panzer III N from the 504^th Tiger special detachment. 

That’s us.

Victors of a dozen scraps worse than this. We’ll hold the line while the Regiment breaks free.

Feldwebel – Otto Schuster