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Default Re: Invasion Sweden 1943 (Untested Campaign)

OOB put together from various sources:

http://www.history.army.mil/html/boo...Pub_104-23.pdf

http://ww2-weapons.com/Armies/German...macht/1943.htm

plus cross referencing with Wikipedia and some Nafgizer books I have.

There's some interesting stuff in CMH Pub 104-23:

P.247 (Summarized) Operation PARKPLATZ; an offensive with the intention of capturing Leningrad after transferring troops in theater following a successful Kursk offensive.

P.108 (Summarized) June 1940 proposal to occupy ICELAND codenamed Operation IKARUS. Would have used liners Bremen and Europa as troopships; and they believed it could be done after September 1940; but the damage to Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, combined with planning for SEA LION shelved this plan.

Page 252 (physical) onwards gets into the nitty gritty for this campaign:

P.255 "In March 1943 it [25th Panzer] was just beginning to receive some German Mark III and IV tanks, but, for the most part, its tank armament consisted of obsolete German Mark II's and French Hotchkiss and Suoma tanks. It had a ration strength, probably somewhat higher than the actual strength, of 11,000 men."

P.257 The 25th Panzer Division was to be brought up to full strength before the end of June. It would be given ten Panzer IV's five self-propelled assault guns, and ten heavy antitank guns per month during April, May, and June.

P.262 Most remarkable was the transformation of the 25th Panzer Division from a collection of odds and ends into a powerfully equipped (for Scandinavian conditions) panzer division. By the end of June the division had been completely re-equipped with German artillery and small arms; it had received well over 1,000 trucks and other vehicles; and its strength (ration strength) stood at 21,000 men. It had 7 Mark II tanks, 41 Mark III's, 16 Mark IV's, 40 Hotchkiss (French), 15 Suomas (French), and 15 self-propelled assault guns.

The map (attached) shows paratroop landings; which are interesting in themselves.

AOK Norway (Armeeoberkommando Norwegen) (directly subordinate to OKH)
---AOK Norway Reserves:
------25. Pz Div
------------extremely understrength with French R35, H39 and Char B1 tanks.
------------Artillery regiment had modern guns was just the size of a battalion.
------------Recon battalion had no armored cars; all motorcycles.
------196 Inf Div
------275 Fortress Div
---XXXIII Corps
------14 Luftwaffen Field Division
------702 Infantry Division
------181 Infantry Division
---LXX Corps
------269 Infantry Division
------280 Infantry Division
------214 Infantry Division
------710 Infantry Division
---LXXI Corps
------230 Infantry Division
------270 Infantery Division
------199 Infantry Division

20th Mountain Army (20. Gebirgsarmee): Colonel-General (Generaloberst) Eduard Dietl
---XVIII Mountain Corps (Northern Finland)
------6. SS-Mountain Division "Nord" (Northern Finland)
------7. Gebirgs Division (Northern Finland)
------18. SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment (Northern Finland)
---XXXVI Mountain Corps (near Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast)
------169. Infantry Division (near Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast)
------163. Infantry Division (near Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast)
---XIX Mountain Corps (Northern Finland)
------2. Mountain Division (Northern Finland)
------6. Mountain Division (Northern Finland)
------210. Infantry Division (Northern Finland)
------Four Infantry regiments (Northern Finland)
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