(paratrooper) units, whose performance was generally good, due to better training and higher entrance standards when compared to the Field Divisions (early fallschirmjäger troops were also transferred directly from the Heer to the Luftwaffe). Field Division airmen were frequently used for rear echelon duties to free up front line troops. Divisions 1st Luftwaffe Field Division 2nd Luftwaffe Field Division - At the Battle of Nevel (1943), the Soviet assault force struck and demolished the 2nd Luftwaffe Field Division. Like all the Luftwaffe "divisions" the 2nd was in fact the size of a brigade, with only four infantry battalions and was especially weak in artillery with just eight 75 mm mountain guns and a battery of Stug IIIs. It had been badly damaged in its first action south of Belyi during Operation Mars nearly a year earlier. 3rd Luftwaffe Field Division 4th Luftwaffe Field Division - Destroyed defending Vitebsk during the Vitebsk–Orsha offensive in June, 1944. 5th Luftwaffe Field Division 6th Luftwaffe Field Division- Destroyed defending Vitebsk during the Vitebsk–Orsha offensive in June, 1944. 7th Luftwaffe Field Division 8th Luftwaffe Field Division 9th Luftwaffe Field Division 10th Luftwaffe Field Division 11th Luftwaffe Field Division 12th Luftwaffe Field Division 13th Luftwaffe Field Division 14th Luftwaffe Field Division 15th Luftwaffe Field Division 16th Luftwaffe Field Division Eventually transferred to the Heer as 16th Luftwaffe Infantry Division (later 16th Volksgrenadier Division) 17th Luftwaffe Field Division 18th Luftwaffe Field Division 19th Luftwaffe Field Division (later 19th Luftwaffe Sturm Division) Eventually transferred to the Heer as 19th Grenadier Division (later 19th Volksgrenadier Division) 20th Luftwaffe Field Division (later 20th Luftwaffe Sturm Division) 21st Luftwaffe Field Division (previously the Meindl Division, an ad hoc collection of Luftwaffe resources) 22nd Luftwaffe Field Division - never formed, its sub-units were assigned to other divisions. Luftwaffe Field Corps I Luftwaffe Field Corps, planned winter 1942–1943 on the basis of the XIII. Fliegerkorps, but never really established. II Luftwaffe Field Corps, October 1942 - 1 November 1943 : 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th Luftwaffe Field Division (Alfred Schlemm) III Luftwaffe Field Corps, January 1943 - November 1943 : 9th and 10th Luftwaffe Field Division (Job Odebrecht) IV Luftwaffe Field Corps, January 1943 - 19 November 1944 : 198th, 716th and 189th Infantry Division (Erich Petersen) See also 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier Division 2 Hermann Göring List of German divisions in World War II Wehrmacht References Ruffner, Kevin. Luftwaffe Field