was replaced by garrison troops from the 160th Security Division on 13 May, when the brigade was withdrawn for use in the invasion of France. Regiments: 110th and 111th motorized infantry Panzer Abteilung z.b.V 40 Luftwaffe The Luftwaffe's X Fliegerkorps was commanded by Generalleutnant Hans Ferdinand Geisler; it had operational command of all Luftwaffe units participating in Operation Weserübung. Parachute troops I/German 1st Parachute Regiment Commanded by Major Erich Walther Individual companies were used to occupy key airfields in northern Denmark (Aalborg Airport), near Stavanger (Sola Airport), and Oslo (Fornebu Airport). Aircraft available 102 fighters. 233 bombers. 39 dive bombers. 165 reconnaissance aircraft (including float planes). 582 transport aircraft. Kriegsmarine Baltic Sea and Norwegian Waters Naval Group Command West – Generaladmiral Alfred Saalwächter Battleship Force – Vizeadmiral Günther Lütjens Gneisenau, Kapitän zur See Harald Netzbandt (damaged 20 June) Scharnhorst, Kapitän zur See Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann (damaged 8 June) Objective: Narvik Warship Group One – Kapitän zur See and Kommodore Friedrich Bonte ( 10 April) First Flotilla (detachment) – Fregattenkapitän Fritz Berger Z2 Georg Thiele (Type 1934) – Korvettenkapitän Max-Eckart Wolff (Flotilla Flagship) (beached 13 April) Second Flotilla – Fregattenkapitän Erich Bey Z9 Wolfgang Zenker (Type 1934A) – Fregattenkapitän Gottfried Pönitz (Flotilla Flagship) (beached and scuttled 13 April) Z11 Bernd von Arnim (Type 1934A) – Korvettenkapitän Curt Rechel (beached and scuttled 13 April) Z12 Erich Geise (Type 1934A) – Korvettenkapitän Karl Smidt (sunk 13 April) Z13 Erich Koellner (Type 1934A) – Fregattenkapitän Alfred Schulze-Hinrichs (scuttled 13 April, Schulze-Hinrichs ) Third Flotilla – Fregattenkapitän H.-J. Gadow Z17 Diether von Roeder (Type 1936) – Korvettenkapitän Erich Holthof (scuttled 13 April) Z18 Hans Lüdemann (Type 1936) – Korvettenkapitän Herbert Friedrichs (Flotilla Flagship) (scuttled 13 April) Z19 Hermann Künne (Type 1936) – Korvettenkapitän Friedrich Kothe (scuttled 13 April) Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp (Type 1936) – Korvettenkapitän Hans Erdmenger, (Group One Flagship) (sunk 10 April) Z22 Anton Schmitt (Type 1936) – Korvettenkapitän Friedrich Böhme (sunk 10 April) Transporting: Advanced HQ/3rd Mountain Division – Generalleutnant Eduard Dietl, 139th Mountain Regiment/3rd Mountain Division – Oberst Windisch, coastal artillery battery (crew only), Naval signals section, Army signals platoon, I Bn/32nd LW Flak Regiment (personnel only) Landing Group (planned to be at or entering Narvik when Warship Group One was scheduled to arrive.) (cargo ship) (army equipment, guns, and ammunition) – diverted to Bergen and sunk by Fleet Air Arm air attack on 14 April (cargo ship) (army equipment, guns, and ammunition)