Fallschirmjagers in Stalingrad

[Centurio Marcus T]

Gday all just found some info on the web of Fallshirmjagers in Stalingrad. I think this would make an excellent wargames scenario

The one Fallschirmjäger unit that participated in the Battle for Stalingrad, and as such totally annihilated, was a company strength unit armed with 2 cm Flak, (5 cm Pak?) and MG's, namely the 4./Fallschirm-FlaMG.Btl. Consisting of 5 officers and 230 NCO's and Jägers, it was under the command of a Hauptmann Maurer. The Battalion was trained at Quedlingburg in the sommer of 1942 and earmarked for an air transport and Sprungeinsatz in the Caucasus. The 4. Kompanie (Maurer) were flown, not to the Kertsch Peninsula as planned, but 500 km north east and landed neqar the river Don. Here it was integrated in Heer formations of the 6. Armee (unknown Division though) heading for Stalingrad. Bu mid-oktober was half of the company strengt KIA and/or wounded as was all the 5 officers. Oberleutnant Kemnitz was heavily wounded. There's no detailed information about the combat deeds and fate of this FJ Kompanie in Stalingrad after November 19, 1942.